Maks sat at his desk, staring at the green cover of his 7th-grade Social Studies textbook by Kravchenko. The chapter on "Human Nature" felt like a puzzle with missing pieces. Outside, the sun was setting, and the local soccer match was starting in ten minutes. He needed the answers to the end-of-chapter questions fast.

The GDZ answer was perfect, written in sophisticated, adult language. But as Maks looked at it, he remembered his neighbor, Mrs. Sokolova. Just yesterday, he had chosen to help her carry her heavy grocery bags up three flights of stairs. That wasn’t in the GDZ. That was his own story.

He realized that while the GDZ could give him the facts, it couldn't give him his voice. He closed the browser tab. He wrote about Mrs. Sokolova, about the feeling of the heavy bags, and the way she smiled. He wrote about how one small choice made his building a friendlier place.