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The Diary Project

May 22, 2010
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Last August I got it into my head that it would be a good idea to release my series of thirteen (thirteen!) journals as a blog exactly eighteen years later. Uncensored.

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May 22, 1992

May 22, 2010
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Joe is cute. I think. I’m not sure. Nobody else thinks so. I do not know why I’m attracted to him. He likes me. I think. Larearta says so. On the dusk hike I caught him looking at me. I was laughing. I wonder what [...]

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May 25, 1992

May 25, 2010
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I’m confused. Leah didn’t know who Joe is. She is in love big time. She’s making me be the writer for her notes. Now Erik thinks I like him. Leah says I have the neatest handwriting in the whole fifth grade. Is it true? Does Joe know?

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May 26, 1992

May 26, 2010
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Does Joe like me? That is the main subject on my mind. If he likes me why won’t he ask me out? Tim doesn’t seem to be afraid to ask girls out. Is Joe nice? I don’t know. I wish I dared tell someone I like him. Erin [...]

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May 27, 1992

May 27, 2010
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I thought Joe would ask me out today. He didn’t. I guess I never expected him to. I never see him around school. How come Sam hates me so? Jennie hasn’t given me her Kudos all week. I wonder why. I heard Sam saying that having someone at the table [...]

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May 28, 1992

May 28, 2010
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How can this be?  Jennie says she isn’t mad at me.  Should I believe it?

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May 31, 1992

May 31, 2010
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Joe didn’t ask me out last Friday!  Nor did I find out who won the story contest.  At least I got an A- on my math test.  Should I give up on the fact that Joe might ask me out?  He doesn’t see me at all during school.  Before and after school are even worse. [...]

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June 4, 1992

June 4, 2010
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I am so ______!!! (mad, ashamed, whats the word?)

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