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Ban Boredom? Yes, Please.
“I’m soooo bored.”
I don’t think I can name another utterance that annoys me more than this one. And that long, droning “sooooo” stuck in there, adding insult to injury.
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I admit it. I’m tough on boredom. Chalk it up to years as an only child in the 70s, spent solo in the backyard of wherever we happened to be living at the time. Boredom was not an o
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The Boy Next Door (Candy Apple #2)
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Only the Lonely (From the Files of Madison Finn, #1)
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2001
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Boy, Oh Boy! (From the Files of Madison Finn, #2)
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Play It Again (From the Files of Madison Finn, #3)
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Caught in the Web (From the Files of Madison Finn, #4)
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Save the Date (From the Files of Madison Finn, #7)
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Picture-Perfect (From the Files of Madison Finn, #8)
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Thanks for Nothing (From the Files of Madison Finn, #5)
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Lost and Found (From the Files of Madison Finn, #6)
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To Have and to Hold (From the Files of Madison Finn Super Edition, #1)
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“The only reason I'm getting glasses at all is because Mom and Dad didn't give me a choice. Otherwise, I'd be perfectly content to walk around in a blurry haze for the rest of my life.”
― The Boy Next Door
― The Boy Next Door
“Wait. What’s that?” She points to the last item. “Bizarre? Like . . . strange?”
“No, no,” I insist. “It’s bizarre like a flea market. “You know. Bizarre.”
“Oh, Taryn!” Mom’s eyes glisten and she smiles. “You mean the word ‘bazaar,’ don’t you? With three A’s.”
“Oh, yeah. Whoops.”
I quickly scratch off the misspelled word and rewrite it the way Mom says to.
As I do, Mom laughs and tousles my hair. Sometimes when she does that I feel like a baby all over again. And right now, for some reason, I don’t mind so much. I inhale a whiff of her perfume, and everything seems just right in the world.
“Bazaar,” I say the word slowly, a little embarrassed, trying to emphasize the A’s so I don’t get it wrong ever again.
I may be starting off sixth grade with a bang, but my spelling still needs some serious help.
Maybe I should spend the weekend locked in my bedroom with a dictionary?
Like that’s ever going to happen.”
― The Boy Next Door
“No, no,” I insist. “It’s bizarre like a flea market. “You know. Bizarre.”
“Oh, Taryn!” Mom’s eyes glisten and she smiles. “You mean the word ‘bazaar,’ don’t you? With three A’s.”
“Oh, yeah. Whoops.”
I quickly scratch off the misspelled word and rewrite it the way Mom says to.
As I do, Mom laughs and tousles my hair. Sometimes when she does that I feel like a baby all over again. And right now, for some reason, I don’t mind so much. I inhale a whiff of her perfume, and everything seems just right in the world.
“Bazaar,” I say the word slowly, a little embarrassed, trying to emphasize the A’s so I don’t get it wrong ever again.
I may be starting off sixth grade with a bang, but my spelling still needs some serious help.
Maybe I should spend the weekend locked in my bedroom with a dictionary?
Like that’s ever going to happen.”
― The Boy Next Door
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