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How did you escape from being totally NOT cool in the 7th grade?
TODAY’S PROMPT: “ESCAPE”
On my 60th birthday, my perceptive, imaginative friend, Liz Palladino, gave me a box that looked just like a book. You open the cover and it’s filled with writing prompts. Best gift ever. It’s inspired me to create a new Medium series called Writings from Liz’s BookBox. Gonna try and hit it every week till I get through the whole thing.
Escape. Wow. So many ways I’ve escaped in my life. Travel, booze, sex, TV, reading, lying. By far, my favorite escape route was always fantasy. Which inevitably led to some lying. One example stands out, from my childhood.
I was fairly popular in junior high, but never really girlfriend material. My best friend had long, thick, luscious, brown hair, and she had no trouble filling out an actual bra. I had nothing. Well, I didn’t have nothing. I had thin, short hair, Kleenex in my training bra, and a kickass imagination.
I knew I was never going to have a boyfriend of my own, though, so I created him. He went to a different school. We had a whole relationship for about three months.
Tom Jennings was in the eighth grade (I was in the seventh grade, so right there I manufactured massive amounts…
