Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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“ o guess what?” Effie’s cheeks were deeply flushed, and Sher feet were working a miniature Riverdance on the tile floor. “What?” Lena asked, looking up from her book. “I kissed him.” “Who?” “The waiter!” Effie practically screamed. “The waiter?” “The waiter! Oh my God! Greek boys make out better than American boys!” Effie declared. Lena could not believe her sister. She could not believe she and Effie came from the same parents. Obviously they hadn’t. One of them was adopted. Seeing that Effie looked identical to their parents, that left Lena. Maybe she was Bapi’s illegitimate love child. Maybe she really had been born on Santorini. “Effie, you made out with him? What about Gavin? You know, your boyfriend?”
Effie shrugged blithely. Her happiness made her impervious to guilt. “You’re the one who said Gavin smelled like pork rinds.” It was true. “But Effie, you don’t even know this guy’s name! Did you call him ‘the waiter’ to his face? Isn’t that kind of tacky?” “I know his name,” Effie said, undisturbed. “It’s Andreas. He’s seventeen.” “Seventeen! Effie, you’re fourteen,” Lena pointed out. She sounded, even to herself, like the principal of a very strict school. “So? Kostos is eighteen.” Now Lena’s cheeks were just as red. “Well, I didn’t make out with Kostos,” she sputtered. “That was your fault,” Effie said, and she walked out the door. Lena threw her book on the floor. She wasn’t actually reading it anyway. She was too miserable, too preoccupied. Effie was fourteen, and she’d kissed many more boys than Lena had. Lena was supposed to be the pretty one, but Effie was always the one with the boyfriend. Effie would grow up to be the happy old woman with the big family, surrounded by people who loved her, and Lena would be the weird, scrawny maiden aunt who was invited over only because they felt sorry for her. She took out her drawing stuff and set it up, looking at the view out her window. But when she put her nubby piece of charcoal to her paper, her fingers didn’t make a horizon line. Instead they drew the contour of a cheek. 214
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pan
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For Jodi Anderson, the real thing
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pan
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PROLOGUE Once upon a time there was
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Effie picked out a little mod dress
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The summer we were born our mothers
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one another. We’re nice to one an
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“ Can you close that suitcase?”
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say . . .” Her eyes lighted on th
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somebody else should try them.” S
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“She’s too tall for them,” Ti
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“Carmen, they’re your pants,”
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erry Pop-Tarts with pink icing, the
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motley list that ranged from sincer
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We, the Sisterhood, hereby instate
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Today is the tomorrow we worried ab
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very easy to spend your best name o
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Dear Bee, I’m enclosing a very sm
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“Hi. Hi.” Bridget waved to two
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sound of the surf beat away on the
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estaurant she picked. She tried to
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Can you make yourself love? Can you
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hypothetically, of course. She’d
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fell instantly in love with the Cal
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She jammed her headset over her ear
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“Your smock?” he pressed. “Oh
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There is no such thing as fun for t
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“Lena! Almost ready!” Grandma s
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Effie looked pained on her behalf.
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“It’s a weird summer for us,”
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that she’d made her mother cry on
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wood steps of the front porch. It w
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It turned slowly. She could hear th
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Love is li ke war : e asy to begin
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“He’s . . .” Lena raised an e
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He studied her face while he shook
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eaten Greek food back in Maryland,
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He follows it, though a lot of peop
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Rule #1: The customer is always rig
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around. In fascination she watched
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The hospital will take care of cont
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Aren’t we supposed to be a family
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“Mamaaa,” she sobbed into the p
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Slowly Bridget waded into the warm
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“What about your mom?” And here
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that, she accelerated to a near spr
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When life hands you a lemon, say,
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father, her aunt, Effie. The big, p
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looking out over the glittering wat
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“You’re the one who found Baile
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Mrs. Graffman handed her a tall gla
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“Nice smock,” Bailey practicall
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She crossed her arms. “I’m, uh,
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“ Tibby, will you cut up Nicky’
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Nicky was digging both hands in his
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angry. Immediately he saw from her
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She felt a little creek of sweat fl
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were inside out. How dare he stare
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Carmen watched Krista struggling wi
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threat to his and Skeletor’s happ
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Other than that, the conversation o
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Tibby was about to pretend she didn
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Bridget considered. “We could eit
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Marci waved back. Eric and another
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The old men each got in another pun
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“ Are you excited about your wedd
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“Fine,” Carmen grumbled, and sh
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teased like a five-year-old. She go
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ANYBODY TALKS ABOUT in this place-o
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conversation. Skeletor had a low th
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The problem is not the problem. The
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had dried funny from the pond water
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ed. “I can’t stop thinking abou
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“Big age difference, huh?” “F
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on them—which may further inhibit
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“I better go,” Paul said. “Th
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“Please? Please?” Bailey begged
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Upon her first introduction to Bria
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game. “I live in here.” He tapp
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He seemed to resign himself quickly
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Effie had asked about the bandage o
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B efore you criticize some- one, yo
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Barbara wanted to backtrack. After
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Page 199 and 200: At breakfast, Bridget was thinking
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Page 205 and 206: Carmen bristled. “Here’s what h
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Page 209 and 210: eached high and jumped. The ball sa
Page 211 and 212: Lena needed to get back to painting
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Page 219 and 220: Carmen slouched down the hall. Moth
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Page 261 and 262: Tonight, though, Effie was flushed
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“Couldn’t you have been honest
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I s there world enough for me? —J
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He waved away her concern. “You l
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I hope these Pants bring you as muc
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on. “One afternoon she was waitin
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Lena usually counted on boys being
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about the thing they thought had ha
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thing.” Was she still speaking En
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As they had the past two nights, th
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the first time in days she had felt
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“How’s Brian?” Bailey asked.
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“Listen, I think I need to change
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miles to the cemetery, frozen Mimi
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on the sand, pulling Bridget down n
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EPILOGUE Tradition called for our a
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turquoise polish. Tibby’s and Len
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Constant use had not worn ragged th
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Are you Greta Randolph, by any chan
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front door. “Thanks a lot, Mrs. R
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She pointed across the way to the s
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The Pants elude Carmen. . . . The k
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She hadn’t yet fully entered the
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The Pants return home to Lena. . .
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Well, it wasn’t like she could ha
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