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"I know, honey I worry about you is all" Mo sunscreen first to his aro find a place Your father will be doing that for hours"

"It's not my fault I don't have such a lovely tan already," Dad says With a hand turned white from sunscreen he blows thee around to see this e and Dad turning hi Samantha to wear a black one-piece suit and a floppy straw hat They ive her a sand shovel and pail

Before the trip west, she had ridden her bike to the department store after school When she reached the section of bathing wear, she stared up at the ray skin She i to look at her when she walks past

Under the fluorescent lights of the dressing room, the bikini doesn't look nearly as iht A stubborn roll of fat-Moot older peeks over the bottoh her exposed skin

Her face turns as red as the bikini as she changes back into a loose T-shirt and jeans Holding the bikini up, she shakes her head She's not pretty enough for soirls at school

The bikini on its hanger treaze Samantha will never have a body like that She'll never be pretty

"The baby clothes are over there," her hter like a pack oftheface and then turns around, the hanger steadying in her hand SheHannah and her friends staring

"Aren't you a little young for this?" the old wo She fishes the money from her pocket, money she's saved from her lunch and allowance for three weeks now for this ined Nevertheless, she tosses back her hair, keeping her nose pointed at the ceiling as she struts past Hannah and her chattering friends

Unfortunately, Moht Sa lady, you are not going out of the house like that," Mom said