'For the first time, I plunked them on my bed, and I read them all.'
My Aunt Colleen was a smart woman. Among her choice phrases: Only truly beautiful women can have short hair. Never underestimate the power of a hook — or a can of paint. Be curious. Be skeptical.
I did exactly as my aunt said. We threw out all the crap. I didn’t cry. And I didn’t look back. Until, ten years later, I did. The earliest is a tiny white diary with two harlequins on the front and perfumed polka dotted paper that has somehow retained its baby powder scent. When I press my nose to the pages, I’m right back in my childhood bedroom in Australia, where I lived from ages three to eight. It has a small silver lock that I lost the key for along the way, and at some point, I ripped the spine to open it up. The first entry is from 1991 and foreshadows just how boy-crazy I’d be for, oh, ever.
One of the wonderful things about reading the diaries was being reminded of stuff I’d long forgotten, like how I spent the night of the winter formal watching movies with a guy friend I’d known since fourth grade. Or the fact that my friends and I made a hilarious two-page memo outlining our “purpose, materials, and method” for a girl’s trip we dubbed The Ottawa Relaxation Vacation.
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