“You mean there really is a falls in West Falls?” I said as we hiked up through the woods in the hot afternoon. I was wearing the same thing as all the other girls, shorts with a T-shirt — in my own case, the same Gay-Straight Youth Alliance T-shirt that I’d been wearing the first time I’d met Becka.
The girls laughed at me.
“Of course there’s a falls, J-bird,” Becka said.
“It’s the best thing there is about this whole town,” Polly added.
And suddenly I looked up, and there it was: a bright, crashing, roaring waterfall, dropping at least twelve feet from its pinnacle into a deep green pool before quieting down to join the quick, dancing flow.
Jennifer Anne Moses is a writer whose byline and media presence have touched the lives of teens for more than two decades. Her articles, essays, short stories, and columns appear regularly in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bon Appétit, the Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country, and more. In Tales from My Closet, Jennifer draws from her experience as a frequent NPR trends commentator and lifestyle reporter. The author of three additional books, she lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with a closetful of to-die-for clothes.
She can be found on the web at: www.JenniferAnneMosesArts.com
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