![]() ![]() But you love them so much – Betsy, Tacy, and Tib Harriet Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter all of All-of-a-Kind Family the Melendys Meg and Charles Wallace Ged the wizard Claudia and Jamie. I can see you reading and re-reading all your favorite books, even when your parents shake their heads in bewilderment, wondering why anyone would want to read a book twice when there are so many books to read. ![]() You could be writing anything they all wonder about it. The notebook defends you from what the other kids might be saying or thinking. ![]() You really, really want to be Harriet the Spy. I can see you huddled in the corner of the schoolyard at the alternative junior high, writing in your notebook. How do they come up with those awful nicknames? But you don’t cry. You’re overweight, and they’re despicable. I can see you hiding under the piano in the hallway outside your sixth grade classroom while the boys in the class make fun of you. ![]() You push your way to the back of every wardrobe, hoping to come out in Narnia. Lewis, and Edward Eager, and wishing so hard for magic to happen that it almost hurts. I can see you in fourth and fifth grade reading all the different-colored Andrew Lang fairy tale books, and C.S. I can still look back and see you as if it were yesterday. ![]()
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