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...it brings such joy
I am sitting on one of the various window seats that my home-decorator mother insisted on for our house when I was born, the last of seven children. There is one window seat for each of us, with cluttered cubbies and our names underneath. Other than my parents, we kids don't care whose window seat belongs to whom, and we take whichever is available. I'm currently sitting on Mark's.
For the past couple of days I've been thinking more intently than I'm used to, and less selfishly than my thoughts usually turn out to be. I'm thinking about people, and what I'm missing when I look at them.
I MET LORALINE at art camp, at the beginning of summer.
She came up to me, popped a big bubblegum bubble in my face, and asked, "Are you the new camper?"
"Yes," I'd answered, a bit shell-shocked, not so much because of what she'd asked, but because of her forwardness, and her appearance: a cowboy hat, cowboy boots, overalls, and wild, dirty-blond hair.
"Of course, you gotta be," Loraline said, hitting her forehead with her palm, "how many new campers are there! Simonee said one new camper, not plural, more than one. So you're obviously it." I was already a bit frazzled, but the sudden mention of a girl with an odd name like Simonee--not Simone--made me even more confused. I asked who Simonee was, and she just laughed.
"Who's Simonee! Good one, real good one. I'm Loraline. You'll get used to me blowing bubbles--I use gum for my art projects. I'm very original."
Now that that was established, I didn't ask anything else about this mysterious Simonee girl--until I met her. There was such an anticipation to meet the girl who apparently everyone except me knew that I found myself asking, "When will Simonee come to camp?" about every minute of my first day.
"What, are you in love with her or something?!" joked Gabriel, who Loraline had introduced me to...
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