From ONE book on Sunday morning!

Okay tenth graders, check this out! These are all from ONE book (Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume) that I was reading on Sunday morning:

Being Canadian, Shoshona seemed hopelessly cosmopolitan. She had some very fancy ways compared to us Hoosiers.

I listed the myriad ways Shoshona had taken over the class -- swinging Muffy and Monique (the only names that have been changed in this essay are those of the innocent) to her side; making faces at me and rude remarks, if when the class split into groups, I tried to join my old friends, Becky, Barbara, and Erika, who liked and accepted me just the way I was; calling me a baby when I wouldn't play "chase the boys" on the playground at recess; making fun of my homemade clothes and nondesigner jeans; laughing at the fact that I was forbidden from watching Starsky and Hutch.

Today when the subject of Judy Blume comes up with my girlfriends, everyone gets that wistful look in their eyes, recalling the rainy Sundays, packets of Lik-M-Aid or Razzles, the burgeoning love of literature, and then the look changes.

So when I realized that none of the guys I was having my endless first dates with were making it to a second date, let alone a third date, whereby I might have to deal with the ubiquitous third-date rule, I realized that perhaps my powers of wishing had backfired.

I TOLD you that reading improves your vocabulary!!!!!!!