Swim to Me
““If you have your self-esteem, you have everything,” it said. It had seemed profound to her at the time.
In the three months that Delores had been at Weeki Wachee, she’d been giving her self-esteem the workout of its life. She’d been thrown in with six other girls who were different from anyone she’d ever met in the Bronx. There was Molly, of course. Then there was an impenetrable clique of three girls: Sheila, Sheila, and Helen. They were all from nearby Sebring and had been there the long...est. Molly had a grudge against Helen and wanted Delores not to like her. Helen was the self-appointed class clown, the kind of girl who calls attention to herself by telling jokes in a shrill voice, then laughing wildly as if everyone were having as good a time as she was. Sometimes, when she’d bump into Molly at the park and there were other people present, Helen would stretch out her arms in a theatrical manner and announce for everyone to hear: “Good Gowee, it’s Miss Mowee!”MoreLess
In the three months that Delores had been at Weeki Wachee, she’d been giving her self-esteem the workout of its life. She’d been thrown in with six other girls who were different from anyone she’d ever met in the Bronx. There was Molly, of course. Then there was an impenetrable clique of three girls: Sheila, Sheila, and Helen. They were all from nearby Sebring and had been there the long...est. Molly had a grudge against Helen and wanted Delores not to like her. Helen was the self-appointed class clown, the kind of girl who calls attention to herself by telling jokes in a shrill voice, then laughing wildly as if everyone were having as good a time as she was. Sometimes, when she’d bump into Molly at the park and there were other people present, Helen would stretch out her arms in a theatrical manner and announce for everyone to hear: “Good Gowee, it’s Miss Mowee!”MoreLess
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