My family never moved, I never had to start all over again in a new school. "I thought for a minute, because when I was younger, I liked these games.
Goldilocks ate The three bears' porridge.""I love it! Marilyn," he said to my mother, "your ten-year-old daughter is writing better poetry than my class is."Melissa got into it as well:"Roses are red, Violets are orange. I kept many journals when I was young, which I never showed my parents despite my desire for their praise.
I believed my diaries to be full of secrets which were mine alone, regardless of the irrelevancy of the events they recorded.
But I always wrote them with the idea that someone would read them.
I remember being in fifth grade and receiving my first diary as a birthday gift.
There were a couple of scenes which really made me wince, but nothing was gratuitous and they served to emphasise the points they were making-the loss of control for someone who is still a child but forced to try and make her way in an adult world with no support.
The supporting characters were well realised and added to the film as a whole. It's not an 'easy ride' but well worth persevering with.
It had a little lock on the outside that you could easily pick.
I wanted to make a good impression on my phantom audience.
Those books were really something special to me, almost magical.
I remember looking through the books with her, always focusing on the ones with children.