Top Ten Uses for An Unworn Prom Dress (2006)
“About life in general. (Besides the obvious that learning geometry was a waste of perfectly good brain cells.) I decided that life was like that Chutes and Ladders game you played when you were little. You spin the wheel and move your Mini-Me in a slow and steady progress toward Ultimate Happiness. Unless you land on a ladder that sends you racing to new heights. Or on a slide that tumbles you down, down, down … It seemed that for nine days last June, I was close to the finish line. Then came the News that sent The Dress to the Back of the Door. My butt had hit that super-long slide, the one that ran almost the full length of the board. And now here I sat, a million miles from victory.
Overly dramatic? Probably. But with the echoes of Dad's voice, my sobbing, and Jared's warning still ringing from last night in my ears, it was getting increasingly hard to have a glass-is-half-full attitude.
Plus, Kylie—whose cinnamon-apple body spray managed to choke me, even though she sat two rows b...ehind and one over—had given me another dirty look this morning.MoreLess
Overly dramatic? Probably. But with the echoes of Dad's voice, my sobbing, and Jared's warning still ringing from last night in my ears, it was getting increasingly hard to have a glass-is-half-full attitude.
Plus, Kylie—whose cinnamon-apple body spray managed to choke me, even though she sat two rows b...ehind and one over—had given me another dirty look this morning.MoreLess
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