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For Mom, who always bounces back, and for Quinn Patrick, our littlegame changer
Page 3: Begin ReadingTable of ContentsAbout
Page 7 and 8: Tally Gibson was the first and only
Page 9 and 10: keep up, but she rolls easily off D
Page 11 and 12: Outside, in the senior parking lot,
Page 13 and 14: seen you that pissed off before. I
Page 15 and 16: shoulder and stalks toward the park
Page 17 and 18: 2It takes a moment for my senses to
Page 19 and 20: own phone.My mom shows up fifteen m
Page 21 and 22: “Mom, don’t—” Irene tries.
Page 23 and 24: “What’s the damage?” Dad asks
Page 25 and 26: “Do we have to?”Dad tilts his h
Page 27 and 28: “Remember when she didn’t speak
Page 29 and 30: 3The next morning, I pull into Iren
Page 31 and 32: She snorts. “Right. You only impl
Page 33 and 34: then she and my sisters queued up a
Page 35 and 36: I wince, all thought of Danielle’
Page 37 and 38: fish my notebook out of my backpack
Page 39 and 40: The whole team looks at me, their m
Page 41 and 42: Still, that afternoon, before the e
Page 43 and 44: This time, when the cheerleaders sh
Page 45 and 46: Now she glares at me. “Would you
Page 47 and 48: I open my mouth to say something, b
Page 49 and 50: on her. But the truth is, I was afr
Page 51 and 52: “Ding-dong, the witch is dead,”
Page 53 and 54: “So?”“So that’s all she eve
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sidelines. The cheerleaders break o
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hands, but she takes a practiced si
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“You’re picky as hell,” Honey
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Kevin drives us since he’s the on
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Irene narrows her eyes. “And why
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She purses her lips. “For how lon
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Thora snorts. “With her? She hit
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anything when I came out. Just try
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Candlehawk boyfriend to turn our wa
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acknowledge her sexuality (“You g
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Me: Yeah, so?Only a small, distant
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“She thinks it’s a dead end,”
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“Buck, don’t say ‘shit’ in
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“Why didn’t you keep them movin
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we’ve ever drawn—maybe the only
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“Yeah, I know, I’m just conside
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Just when I’m about to deliver th
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It’s the first time she’s said
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“Scottie, we’ve been meaning to
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I shake my head. This girl never ce
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“No. I’m trying to point out th
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Tally looks stricken. She tries to
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Charlotte, he pops a video onto the
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Irene snorts derisively. She falls
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squat in the center. It’s one of
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Honey-Belle stares meaningfully at
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Prescott. The Candlehawk boyfriend.
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Sometime later, I find myself stand
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Freaking weirdo. I wash my face and
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is Dirty Dancing. She plays that so
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again?” the queer soccer goalie s
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I shake my head in the darkness, bu
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When we pull into her driveway, she
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“I’m renaming our lunch special
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me up in a hug, and everyone scream
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But it’s not enough for Honey-Bel
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“You played great tonight,” she
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13Holiday break begins with a rains
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“That was … whatever,” I say,
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When Mass ends, I’m eager to leav
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a sacred tradition for them? Has sh
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She hands me a perfectly wrapped bo
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Her eyes flicker in the glow of the
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“Here, you little brat,” Thora
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Her eyes bug out the slightest bit.
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I can’t remember the last time I
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“You played really great in the C
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would be too hard to switch schools
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15The party is at some hip, boxy mo
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She stares at me, unamused. “I ca
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I have a sudden, strange sensation
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“Go run outside,” Danielle says
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“Why were you there in the first
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“Is everything okay?” Mom asks
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By the time I stop sobbing, I’m s
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Mom smooths my hair back from my fo
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I point at Danielle. “That’s wh
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“Good memory,” she says flatly.
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“Yes.” She smiles sadly. “Loo
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17I never anticipated how mundane t
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sprinting down the field, their lun
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SAOY?”“Yeah, I am.” Her eyes
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“Darius Hart … Michael Lottke
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Which, go figure, is the exact thin
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The next day, I seek out Charlotte
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18I find Honey-Belle before school
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The woman’s eyebrows jump. “Her
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The championship game dawns on a co
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And then the buzzer blares. It’s
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The stands go haywire. People are l
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An idea strikes me. “Hey … what
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19Life settles into a calmer pace o
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It’s a beautiful March day when w
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI had so much fun wr
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bottom of my heart.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORKelly Quindlen is t
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Copyright © 2021 by Kelly Quindlen
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