BONKERS!!!

I wonder.

Doesn’t Blogger have anything better to do than flag and unpublish 13-year-old posts?

Really?

For what it’s worth, this blog was originally conceived as an idea to use Blogger as a twitter-esque platform, to post a book, sentence by sentence.

Obviously, it was an unsuccessful venture, but geez...

Your bots have gone....

BONKERS!!!

 

CHAPTER 13.

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Girl, Anonymous

I am Girl, Anonymous.

I'm not sure what I plan to post here.

Perhaps I'll continue my tweet story here, but I have pretty much abandoned my Twitter account. Twitter strikes me as being somewhat flighty, silly, and ridiculous.

I don't have an anonymous Facebook account, though I may change my mind.

In general, I don't trust social media, which do everything possible to siphon your innermost thoughts in order to sell goods and services to you. I like my privacy, which is why I've decided to post anonymously.

Although I'm posting as a girl, I could be any age, but I am a female.

You should know this about the real me: I don't do drugs or anything else illegal. I live an ordinary life in an ordinary town.

But what I post here may imply otherwise because most of what you will read and have read on this site is fantasy, only applying to real life in a very superficial sense.

I may be writing about my past, which was livelier than my present.

That's it for now.

233. You start having sex

just after your father’s spectral appearance in your life.
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232. I throw myself on the bed

and pretend I’m having sex with John Lennon.
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231. My grandparents have separate bedrooms--

a good thing, too, because I can’t imagine those two old people having sex.
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230. I turn down the volume

to a setting that I know will still irritate Deems, but he won’t say anything. He’ll just go to his bedroom to stew.
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229. “TURN DOWN THAT CATERWAULING,”

Deems yells up the steps.
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228. I drop the album on the record player

turntable and play “Long Tall Sally” at full volume. Paul McCartney.
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227. But it doesn’t do any good

to sass back, so I snatch the album from Deems and go to my room, a cavernous attic with dormer windows.
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225. I HATE when Deems acts like that.

It’s not MY fault my parents hate each other and don’t want me.
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224. “Harrumph,” Deems says, looking over

the Beatles’ album with angry blue eyes. “A little support money would be more helpful than this clap-trap.”
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223. “You mean HE’S in town again?”

Meems says, a bit of a sneer in her tone.
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222. I tell Meems and Deems

about my father’s visit and show them the Beatles’ album.
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221. Other than being old and irrelevant,

they act like parents anywhere, perhaps stricter than my friends’ parents. Still, there are ways around them.
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220. I think they love me, but

are a bit perplexed at being parents again.
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219. I like them okay; they give me

a weekly allowance and buy me just about everything I need and ask for.
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218. I don’t remember much about my mother,

but I call my grandmother “Meems” and my grandfather “Deems.”
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216. You cry as your mother waves “goodbye”

from the top step of the porch, but even then, you know that you grandparents will fulfill all your needs.
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215. This is how you become

a California girl, which helps shape you into the person you become at age 14.
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214. Your mother refuses to leave

the purple and white trailer but agrees to give up temporary custody of you and Snowball.
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213. Your daddy leaves your mother,

you, and Snowball, and your grandparents drive out to Vegas from Los Angeles to try to fix things.
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212. It goes on forever.

Until the policeman comes.
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211. Loud words, CRASH! Table upturned,

bottles flying. Screams. Crying. Slaps...
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210. You know what’s coming next,

so you cover your ears and try not to hear, but to no avail.
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