Things found in my old trunk from childhood (volume one):
Stacks and stacks of receipts. Turns out I shopped at the exact same places in 1999 and I do now: The Gap and Panera.
My novel. It's a modern tale turned turn-of-the-century as the heroine starts exploring her family's tumultuous path through a series of diaries. Yes, there is a family curse. Yes, I was 13 when I wrote it.
R. My high school letter. Intended to go on a letterman jacket or a bulletin board, it will now be going back to California with me to find a new home. I haven't figured out yet what that will look like.
Comments
I wrote a novel when I was 13, too. It was about 14 pages long and was about how my friend's cousin became possessed by the devil and chased us around her house with knives until we knocked him unconscious and the devil left.
Yeah.
Posted by: Jennie | November 28, 2006 7:23 AM
Homeschooled, were you Jennie?
Ghee, glad you could get all those things into your suitcase. Now that I've sorted through my room, I have found AT LEAST another suitcase full of your stuff!
Posted by: sally | November 28, 2006 10:33 AM
But you wrote a novel! I wrote a lot of short stories when I was young, but a novel. That's a big deal.
Posted by: doahleigh | November 28, 2006 12:11 PM
What was your letter in?
Posted by: Katie | November 28, 2006 5:32 PM
Jennie, did you knock him unconcious with the knives? Or were the knives just there to instill the Fear?
Sally, they did have a bit of a problem with the amount of stuff in the bag. They made me take some stuff out and put it in a plastic bag.
Oh, Shannon, I didn't finish the novel. I had only traced the curse back four generations when I gave up.
Katie, I lettered in Tennis. I hardly even know what that means; we didn't do jackets or anything, we just got the letters cause of tradition.
Posted by: Abigail | November 28, 2006 8:29 PM
You dope! That's what the ugly sweater that you wouldn't take was for! You were suppose to sew it onto the sweater!!!!
Posted by: Sally | November 28, 2006 10:02 PM