I like to be my own person. I don't take very well to people telling me what to do, 
as my mother well knows. Because I'm not shy, I say what I think, without worrying 
that people won't like me for it. I wear what I want to school; even if the fashion 
is expensive Frye boots, I wear my sneakers. While everyone has her hair cut 
short and blown dry or made into a 
permanent, I still wear mine 
long and loose and 
very wavy.

I have always gotten along well with people older than myself: 
my guitar teacher, my parents' friends, the kids my sister left behind 
at Southside when she graduated a year early. This year I miss the older 
kids, but the seniors are still older than I am because I was skipped when 
I was in the fourth grade at Hewitt School. At the time, my parents were wary 
of allowing me to jump to the fifth grade after the Christmas vacation although Dr. Long and my teacher recommended it.  However, I am feeling very old and mature and I am looking forward excitedly to going to college.
 


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