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I have like two really strong memories of the books. One is the definition of the word "ennui", and the other is Trixie taping a sign to the foot of her bed to remind her to say "Rabbit, rabbit" on the first of the month.

OMG, I do that. Is that where I got that from? Except I say "White Rabbits, White Rabbits". When I remember.

and the other is Trixie taping a sign to the foot of her bed to remind her to say "Rabbit, rabbit" on the first of the month.

I never read those books! Ridic. Why did she do this?

It was some kind of superstition, where if it was the last thing you said when you went to bed on the 31st, and the first thing you said when you woke up on the 1st, your wish would come true.

OMG, I do that. Is that where I got that from? Except I say "White Rabbits, White Rabbits". When I remember.

When I was in grade school, I read that on the first of each month you're supposed to greet everyone by yelling, "White rabbit!"

As a joke, a friend of mine dropped off a rabbit in a box on our front lawn on the first of June. I didn't see the box until after the rabbit had escaped.

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Why did she do this?

For good luck. My DH does this (and insists I do, too, now). I usually humor him, but then start naming all sorts of animals, e.g. "rabbit rabbit beagle beagle hippo hippo bear bear tarantula tarantula...", until he tells me to stop. Hee.

Perkins, Cherry Ames was a series of books of the same vintage (or a little later) as the original Nancy Drew, but Cherry was a nurse. So there was Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, and Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse, and Cherry Ames, Cruise Nurse, etc.

Trixie Belden was another girl sleuth.

White Plainsians would not consider their city upstate, since the emotional/fiscal ties are with NYC (not Albany). We're snobs that way.

That's as much geography as snobbishness, though -- it's really not upstate.

Did nobody else read the Beany Malone books? I loved them.

I remember Beany!