Susan, thanks for posting that link! Now, if I could find a similar link illustrating different regional French accents, I would be a very, very happy girl indeed.
My food is problematic.
River ,'The Message'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Anne W. - Mar 02, 2005 5:11:12 pm PST #358 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
erikaj - Mar 03, 2005 8:50:26 am PST #359 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
It’s just a sweater, the color of new corn or maybe the butter you might put on it. I was a very different girl when this was the sort of thing that got my attention on the rack.(I was a girl, too. Seventeen. Here in the middle of the desert we keep our sweaters for a long time.) I still love this color but have accepted that my life is never going to match it. When I was seventeen, I wasn’t ready. I just believed so much I wanted everyone’s day to be yellow and soft. This is a sweater of a girl embarrassed that she might want somebody’s tongue in her mouth. This is a sweater she could buy in the store with her dad, one of the few things he ever liked to see her in.(She pretends she never wonders what she’d look like in one of those other kinds of sweaters, now that They have finally arrived. She pretends so well she believes herself. She’s better off not being stared at, anyway. She spends so much time in her room being better off, three books is a slow week.) So, now, thirties, cleaning her closet.
”What have you got there?”
“Nothing. Just a sweater. I guess I’ll hang on to it, though.”
Beverly - Mar 03, 2005 8:56:09 am PST #360 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oof. erika, that's got a kick like a mule. Powerful.
erikaj - Mar 03, 2005 9:01:55 am PST #361 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Huh. Thanks.(I've still got the damn sweater, too)
Pix - Mar 03, 2005 9:02:34 am PST #362 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Powerful drabble, Erika.
erikaj - Mar 03, 2005 9:06:34 am PST #363 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Thanks. Funny, though, probably the third one in which I've mentioned my late-arriving breasts. Hope y'all don't think I've got an obsession(much).
Pix - Mar 03, 2005 9:09:10 am PST #364 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Babe, I don't think I really hit puberty until I was about 16. I went from stick-skinny and flat to, "Huh...curves" in about two months. It was very disconcerting.
Beverly - Mar 03, 2005 9:11:38 am PST #365 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
"Oh. Look at those."
Pix - Mar 03, 2005 9:12:57 am PST #366 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Pretty much. Training bras to a C cup. Poof.
ETA: Reminds me of that essay in that Susan Gilman book, though I think she went from flat to a DD.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 03, 2005 9:16:53 am PST #367 of 10001
What is even happening?
Me too, Kristin, although I was 12. I went through puberty so quickly I had stretch marks on my hips and breasts. It wasn't from fat, either.
OTOH, I didn't get a single stretch mark in any of my pregnancies, which just amazed my OB, for some reason.