"of course, you can be prodigy, too,” my mother told me when i was nine. “you can be best anything. what does auntie lindo know? her daughter, she is only best tricky.” which line from the passage you to infer that the mother has high and potentially unrealistic expectations for her daughter? my mother told me when i was nine. “you can be best anything.” what does auntie lindo know? her daughter, she is only best tricky.