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"Did you give her perie?" Dad said fro room

"Ill handle this, Bud," Moirl across the street do this to you?"

Kate nodded, trying to hold on to thepretty

"Do you like it?"

"Yes "

"Well Me, too, then I reia dyed my hair red Grandma Peet was livid " She s, Kathleen, no irls want to be true Nohat have you done to your eyebrows?"

"Tully shaved theive them shape "

Mo is really the way to go I should have taught you how already, but I thought you were too young " She looked around for her cigarettes Finding them on the table, she flipped one out and lit up "After dinner, Ill show you how And I suppose a little lip gloss and ht for school Ill show you how to make it look more natural "

Kate hugged her mom "I love you "

"I love you, too Now get started on the cornbread And Katie, I the rules, okay? Thats how young girls get into trouble "

Kate couldnt help thinking of the high school party Tully had gone to "Okay, Mom "

Within a week, Kate became cool by association Kids raved over her new look and didnt turn away fro a friend of Tully Harts meant she was okay

Even her parents noticed the difference At dinner, Kate wasnt her usual quiet self Instead, she couldnt shut up Story after story spilled out of her Who was dating who a MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR T-shirt to school, where Tully got her hair cut (in Seattle by a guy named Gene Juarez—how cool was that?), and whatat the drive-in this weekend She was still talking about Tully after dinner, while she and Mom did the dishes

"I cant wait for you to meet her Shes super cool Everyone likes her, even the heads "

"Heads?"