The rest of the story.<\/p>\n
Max asked me as we were in the kitchen, “Jonah, I need your expert female
\nadvice on something.” Before the dubious expression on my face could break
\ninto an audible reply, Nathan lashed out, “Better ask Stephanie or Jenifer.
\n Joanna’s the wrong person to ask about that!” I laughed because I hardly
\nconsider myself worthy of giving advice on females, not to mention “expert
\nadvice.” Max went on to say that he’d composed a poem to recite while
\npresenting Stephanie Stone (his date for the ring dance) with a flower, which
\nI assume is the corsage. He wanted my advice on what he’d written, wondering
\nif it was too flippant or not. Nathan continued jabbering, saying stuff
\nlike, “Writing poetry will make you like Joanna, and you know how she ended
\nup.” I told Max to e-mail it to me if he wanted. I found it when I logged
\non to send the stuff I’d already written. Steph came over to tell me not to
\nshow it to Jenifer or Michele. I said I wasn’t planning on showing it to
\nanyone, which I’m glad about because Max seemed pretty uptight in the letter.
\n Then I think Steph got upset at me when I wouldn’t let her read it. Ah
\nwell. It was a good poem, kinda long, formal like, but funny still. I was
\nimpressed.<\/p>\n
Eli and Michele are complaining on the phone to someone about a horse show
\nthat the judges were wrong to Eli or something. I can’t send this until they
\nget off the phone, and I don’t want to leave the computer because I can’t let
\nanyone else read this or what I wrote to Max, and I can’t save it either.
\n Well, I suppose I could save it, but that would require KNOWING how to. And
\nI’m not really prepared for that.<\/p>\n
Never let anyone tell you you can’t do something. Never accept anything as
\nimpossible. If someone says you can’t do something, there may very well be a
\nreason why they’re saying it that will help keep you out of trouble if you
\nlisten to them. Wisdom and restriction. One supposedly replaces the other.
\n But geniuses are just people that never grow up, right?<\/p>\n
Question everything.<\/p>\n
Freak. They finally got off the phone, AOL wouldn’t connect, and now
\nMichele’s on the phone again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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