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Every Girl On The Planet Was Familiar To One-last-time E-mail Checks.

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Every Girl On The

Lauren Myracle

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Every Girl On The Planet Was Familiar To One-last-time E-mail Checks.

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Kids Are Smart. Knowledge Is Power. Let Them Figure Things Out. Don't Turn Into That Grown-up Who They Won't Come To.

Knowledge Is Power

We Are All Flawed, My Dear. Every One Of Us. And Believe Me, We've All Made Mistakes. You've Just Got To Take A Good Hard Look At Yourself, Change What Needs To Be Changed, And Move One, Pet.

Is He A Sophomore?" Lydia Says. "please Tell Me He's In Our Grade." "i Don't Know," I Say. "but Weren't You There When He Came To The Office?" Peyton Says. "the Secretary Didn't Get Out Her Bullhorn And Announce What Grade He's In. She Just Took Him To Meet Headmaster Perkins.

Hey. What Is It That Famous Person Said? 'it'll All Work Out In The End, And If It Doesn't, That Means It's Not The End Yet'?

And They Just Slam The Door. And They Don't Peek Into That Land Any More. And They Forget That Teens And Tweens Are People, Absolutely Just As Much As Adults Are. And Their Problems May Play Out On A Smaller Scale, But The Things They Go Through Are Equally As Valid As A Ceo Trying To Figure Out How To Deal With A Crisis At Work. I Just Write For Teens Because I Love 'em.

You Know, This Technology That We Have, And The Internet And Twitter And Facebook - I Get So Many Of Those Emails That Talk About Hard Times That Kids Have Gone Through, How Books Have Helped Them, But Also Happy Times.

If Everyone Started Off The Day Singing, Just Think How Happy They'd Be.

But You Have To Live In The Present. You Have To Take The Old And Make It New -- That's My Point.

Live In The Present

And You're Figuring Out Who You Are, And You Haven't Yet Become Stagnant In Your Thinking. You Haven't Solidified. And One Thing That I Find Is That A Lot Of Grown-ups Tend To Look Back On Their High School Or Middle School Years And Say, "oh, Thank God All That's Over."

You Have To Be Nicer To Me," I Said. Again He Laughed. "what? I'm The King Of Nice. What Are You Talking About?" "you Have To Be Nicer To Me Or... Or..." "or What?" He Said. Still Lars, Still Charming And Jokey, But With A Thread Of Fear. It Snaked In And Pierced My Numbness And Almost Broke My Resolve. Almost, But Not Quite. "or I Have Ti Break Up With You." I Whispered What Was There More To Say? Nothing. So I Hung Up.

Zoegirl: Have U Named The Chicks? Snowangel:yes, But I Keep Getting Them Mixed Up. So Now I Call All Of Them "squishy." They're The Collective Squishy. Zoegirl: *r* They Squishy? Snowangel: When You Squeeze Them,yes. But Not In A Yucky Way. Snowangel: They're Growing On Me, The Little Squishies. Altho 1 Of Them Pooped On My Pillow. Zoegirl: U Let Them On Your Bed? Snowangel: They Like It When I Bounce Them.

I Live In My Own Little World. But Its Ok, They Know Me Here.

She Holds Herself With Such Reserve. She Smiles, But The Smile Doesn't Reach Her Eyes, Even In The Company Of The Girls She's Chosen To Eat With. Why? I Have No Clue, And I Really Don't Want To Spend My Time Worrying About It. But My Brain Pushes At The Question Anyway. Why Are People Aloof? Because They Don't Want To Let Others In. Why Don't They Want To Let Others In? Well, Sometimes Because They're Shy, And Sometimes Because They're Convinced Of Their Own Superiority. But Those Aren't The Only Reasons. Sometimes It's Because Thay Have Something To Hide.

Being An Author Of Banned Books Is Cool, I've Decided.

I Think That Ties In With Issues Of Identity As Well - That Sometimes There Are Parts Of Us We Want To Hide, And Then There's Other Times We Say, "you Know What? Nope. Done Hiding That Part."

You Shоuld Eat а Waffle! Yоu саn't Bе Sad іf уоu Eat а Waffle!

Even So, I Was Proud Of Myself For Taking Action At All. I Didn't Hide Or Run Away Or Pretend The Ugliness Didn't Happen. I Stood Up And Said Something That Was True. I Said It Out Loud, And By Doing So, I Was Standing Up For Lots Of People, Not Just Me.

It's Unfair How The Kids Who Are Starving For Attention Tended To Be So Annoying That People Had No Inclination To Give It To Them.

Other People Have Suggested That I Write About Teens Because I'm Perpetually Stuck In That Stage Of My Own Development. That Could Very Well Be True. I Would Throw Out That Teens And Tweens Are Just Absolutely Fabulous And The Most Interesting People On The Planet. And It Is A Time Of High Drama, And Everything Matters.

You Know It’s Them Books What Make You Talk Funny.

You Should Eat A Waffle! You Can't Be Sad If You Eat A Waffle!

Also, As An Author, Character Has Always Been What I'm Most Interested In - Much More So Than Plot Or Setting, Although Those Are Good Things Too.

I'm A Southern Girl, And I Grew Up With This Slightly Schizophrenic Upbringing Where I Bounced Back And Forth Between Atlanta, Georgia, And A Tiny Mountain Town Called Brevard, North Carolina. My Parents Were Divorced, And My Two Lives Were Very Different Because Of Socioeconomic Reasons.

Christmas Is Never Over,unless You Want It To Be... Christmas Is A State Of Mind.

Prancing Around With Marshmallowss On Your Nipples Does *not* Constitute Living Your Life Fully!

Three Hot Chicks For Three Hot Chicks." "they're Not Chicks! They're Ducks!

Dogs Like Everyone. Cats Choose Who To Like.

And Books Are Such An Empowering Way To Give Voice To Some Of These Kids Who Aren't Yet Ready To Tell Their Story. Or Don't Know What Their Story Is, Or Are Trying To Figure It Out.

I Did A Lot Of Research On A Couple Different Things. One Was, How Do People Handle Hating Themselves And Hating Others? And Hatred Is A Secondary Emotion, I Think; It Always Springs From Something Else ... Usually Fear, That's Probably What It Is. So I Looked A Lot At That.

Yes, That Man Acted Ugly," She Told Us In Plain English. "but Throwing More Ugliness Back At Him Ain't The Answer.

Every Girl On The Planet Was Familiar To One-last-time E-mail Checks.

Sometimes When We Forget To Do Things For Others, It's Because We're Too Wrapped Up In Our Own Problems.

What Is 'power' Anyway? Power Is An Ego Trip. Power Is A Way To Rise Yourself Up By Lowering Others, And I Want Nothing Of It.

Treating Others

I've Written A Lot Of Novels For Teens And Tweens ... But I'd Never Really Tackled The North Carolina Side Of Me. And It's So Strong And So Important, And Yet I Hadn't Acknowledged It. And So One Of The Things I Wanted To Do In "shine" Is Take That On.

I Didn't Like Being Alone. Being Alone Was Slightly Better Than Having To Deal With People, That's All. Or So I'd Convinced Myself.

Like Being Alone

If She Did See, I Hoped She' Be Amazed. Amazed And Thankful, Because Without Even Asking, She'd Received A Genuine Autograph From A Genuine Girl From Atlanta. Not Just Any Girl, But A Girl Who Was, Frankly, A Pretty Big Deal. A Girl Who Was Me.

Curse False-hand-holding Boys!

If You Breathed Deep And Set Your Mind To It, You Could Rise Above Your Anger.

Suck It Up. This Is The Life You Chose For Yourself, So Buck Up And Deal.

Some People Do Want To Stand On The Rooftop And Scream Out Their Story. Others Are Cowering In The Corner, Or Sitting With A Blank Face In Class, And Not Knowing How To Tell Their Story.

Hello Toes," I Say. They're Good Toes. I Like That They're Long And Slender And Not The Slightest Bit Stubby. I Wiggle Them, Ten Unstubby Waves That Say, "and Hello To You, Human Host!" Except They're Toes. I'm Talking To My Toes. Maybe I'm Not Bored... Maybe I'm Lonely?

We All Mess Up. It's What We Learn From Our Mistakes That Matters.

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