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I was learning that notoriety cay food colu OUT"--which was a modest success I’d declined numerous pleas to run for student council president, because I kneould interfere with my direction of the school musical (I won’t bore you with the details, but let es)

All in all, life through junior high was pretty fun I didn’t really have a life that was so much out of the ordinary The usual series of crushes, confusions, and intensities

Then I s beco ho I suddenly feel more complicated

Not bad co

Queen’s Dilemma

I look for hi for me, too

Joni promises me she’ll be et too carried aith the job, dragging Noah over to me by the ear if she finds him

But the connection isn’t made No matter how far I drift fro, I never drift into hi Pride posters and post-weekend gossip Everybody is jingling and jangling; I look for Noah like I’d look for a pocket of calm

Instead I run into Infinite Darlene Or, hts grander at eight in the h the halls in high heels, a red shock wig, and more-than-passable ht be taken aback

"Ah’ like Scarlett O’Hara as played by Clark Gable "Things are such a messl"

I don’t knohen Infinite Darlene and I first became friends Perhaps it was back when she was still Daryl Heisenberg, but that’s not very likely; few of us can re was like, since Infinite Darlene consumed him so completely He was a decent football player, but nowhere near as good as when he started wearing false eyelashes

Infinite Darlene doesn’t have it easy Being both star quarterback and ho queen has its conflicts And so queens in our school rarely sit with her at lunch; they say she doesn’t take good enough care of her nails, and that she looks a little too buff in a tank top The football players are a little o when Chuck, the second-string quarterback, fell in love with her and got depressed when she said he wasn’t her type

I as are such a s are always such a h to talk about

This tioing to havePride rally this afternoon He wantsqueen, I’ the teaht be in doubt Trilby Pope would take hastly Her boobs are faker than mine"