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model? Dwarf’s clothes?” Can’t wait to hear the news!
    I was so sleepy during AEP. Mr Como was explaining art history and he said, “Don’t fall asleep on me.” I felt so bad. Then we drew three sweets. Mine was yucks.
    Tomorrow is my Lit test and I’m not even reading! I got back at 5.45 pm after AEP.
    Then spent my time being excited over Teens. Then dinner and prep (read Teenage and wrote letters).
    I wonder if we’ll ever be studying or staying together in the future. After school and university we’ll be working and getting married and living separate lives. I wonder if we’ll live in the same town. Will I continue writing letters to you all my life?
    Sigh, sigh, sigh, sigh, sigh. Good night.
    Love, Pei Yi
    Dear Mei Yee
    You’ll never believe my BAD luck. I WAS chosen for Makeover of the Month but Penny Kim said it’s over—during hols. I begged her to put me in for the next month, but she said she couldn’t ’coz it wouldn’t be fair to the new entrants. I’m so sad and disappointed. I even cried in school. No one understands how much I wanted this and how sad I am. Oh Mei Yee, why, why, why???? I can still send in more entries, of course. But I might not be chosen anymore!
    About the lift, you said if the cable breaks and the lift falls, the person inside will crash through the roof? I don’t think so ’coz the person will also be accelerating at 10m/s 2 , right? Today we learnt that if the cable breaks, a person standing on a weighing scale in the lift will be weightless. I don’t understand why ’coz the lift and the person are accelerating at the same rate.
    Love, Pei Yi
    Wednesday 1 April (April FOOL’S Day!)
    Dearest Mei Yee
    Jen Nee and I went for a medical checkup today. I had to undress completely except for my panties and lie on the bed while the female doctor touched me all over. I laughed and giggled (ticklish) and the doctor was quite grim. She didn’t say anything about breast cancer BUT she said I have heart trouble! I have to go for another checkup on 2 May! I was so depressed. I mean, you hear of people getting heart attacks, being raped, getting AIDS etc, but you don’t ever think it’ll happen to you. Don’t tell anyone about this. I only told Jen Nee and Sunny. I’m afraid that something is seriously wrong with me. What if they say I’m going to die soon!? I must stop indulging in self-pity.
    Remember I told you about two girls in my class who were bad-mouthing me? Well, actually they weren’t. I found out today that I was a jerk. Huiwee, Elaine, Lingling and Serena were actually planning my birthday present, which they gave me today.
    I feel like such a terrible JERK. Sometimes I’m really a horrible person. They gave me a letter pad (it’s obvious that I always write letters), a lucky troll (very cute) and a compact stationery set. All from Art Box, a very expensive gift shop, the kind I’d like to open next time. They must have spent A LOT on the jerk, yours truly.
    Here’s a list of my birthday presents:
    Nancy—a cute small photo frame, a card
    Alisa—potato chips
    Betty—poster (that cute kind with a little girl in pastel colours)
    Classmates—cards and chocolates
    Jen Nee—will give one after her chicken pox
    Sunny—a book called Coping with Periods
    I received your letter today. Wow, you and Jay! If Molly knows she’ll kill you! But, who cares ’bout her? Do you like him? Are you happy ’bout it or what? Do you mean Jay spoke to you for two hours or The Magic Flute was two hours?
    My letters aren’t short! Have you received the long one? Hey, please answer my questions in my letter, OK? Well, maybe my letters are shorter ’coz I write them in a day instead of continue every day like I used to. What am I going to do about my heart?! I feel so sad ’bout it. I don’t feel like writing now.
    Love, Pei Yi
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