<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c7/Hailee-steinfeld-ten-thousand-saints-sundance-portraits-january-2015_1.jpg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Miriam Goldman<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>18<br/><strong>CLIQUES:</strong>Honors, theater/drama group, cheerleaders<br/><strong>PLANS:</strong>University<br/><strong>DREAM:</strong>Screenwriter<br/><strong>CAR:</strong>White 2016 Nissan Maxima<br/><br/><strong>HOBBIES:</strong>Singing, dancing, writing, classic movies, true crime, noir.<br/><br/><strong>ABOUT:</strong>Miriam grew up in a relatively conservative and moderately religious Jewish family with an engineering executive father and doctor mother. The youngest and only girl of four kids, Miriam moved to Greenfields in eighth grade, the only one of her siblings too young to attend college.<br/><br/>Pretty, friendly, creatively talented, and a good student Miriam quickly adjusted to Greenfields. At first, Miriam fit in well with the “Popular” crowd. Things changed when she began dating Jeremiah who, despite his good looks and success in sports, caused Miriam’s social standing to slide thanks to the many rumors surrounding his home life and strange mother. Miriam was teased and ostracized by her former “friends” because of her relationship but she stuck only got closer to Jeremiah.<br/><br/>Additionally, at first her parents strongly discouraged Miriam dating Jeremiah though after a year, they got to know, like, and finally accepted him. With high school over, however, her parents have brought up the point that with Miriam getting accepted to an excellent college Jeremiah’s prospects don’t line up very well with the next phase of her life. Just like Jeremiah, she’s torn between the sensible ideas of her parents and her feelings for the boyfriend she’s been with for nearly four years. And with their last summer together approaching Miriam finds herself being torn apart nearly as much as Jeremiah is.<br/><br/><strong>MOMENTS OF GLORY:</strong>When Jeremiah scored a touchdown he dashed to the sideline, where Miriam was cheering, and lifted her up to the crowd in victory. It was a heartfelt and sweet moment that even caught the attention of the local media.<br/><br/><strong>MOMENTS OF SHAME:</strong>Miriam’s older brother Sam caused a rather nasty fight with her parents one day when he was back from college. Frightened for everyone’s safety she called the police causing a lot of unwanted attention not just from her family, who resented her exposing the family’s business to the public, but from the rest of the neighborhood who gossiped about the cops being at the Goldman’s house for months.