HAVE TO DECIDE. I’D BE RELIEVED. She chewed on her pen and started another new paragraph.
SECOND, ANNIE WAS NEVER EXPELLED FROM SPORT’S PUBLIC
SCHOOL. SHE HAD BEEN ON A WAITING LIST FOR THE GREGORY SCHOOL
ALL ALONG, AND A PLACE OPENED UP AT THANKSGIVING WHEN IRIS
MUTH MOVED TO SWITZERLAND.
THIRD, THE GUY IN THE FINGERLESS GLOVES IS THE SON OF
CHRISTOPHER SMITH’S BUSINESS PARTNER. HIS NAME IS ELIAS AND HE
GOES TO NYU FILM SCHOOL.
She could feel her ears starting to burn, so she picked up the pen and wrote quickly:
HE IS 23, WHICH IS ACTUALLY VERGING ON OLD. AND ACCORDING
TO ANNIE, HE SAYS “UM” AND “LIKE” ALL THE TIME, WHICH IS SURELY A SIGN OF A LAZY MIND. EVEN IF HE HAS GREAT TASTE IN GLOVES.
FOURTH, I’M CONVINCED THAT ANNIE’S PARENTS LOVE HER. P.
LOVES HIS DAUGHTER SO MUCH THAT HE BROKE THE RULES SO HE
COULD SEE HER, AND HER MOTHER LOVES HER SO MUCH THAT SHE
FOLLOWED THE RULES, EVEN THOUGH SHE MISSED ANNIE LIKE CRAZY.
OLE GOLLY TOLD ME THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF LOVE IN THE WORLD, BUT
I THINK THERE’S JUST ONE, USING DIFFERENT IDENTITIES. JUST LIKE MY
FRIEND ANNIE SMITH.
Harriet reread her list from the beginning, then paused for a moment to ask herself if there was anything else of importance to say. There was.
FIFTH, ANNIE LOVES TO WRITE LETTERS. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT
THING TO FIND OUT WHEN SOMEBODY IS MOVING, ESPECIALLY WHEN
YOU’RE A WRITER YOURSELF.
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MAYA GOLD, like Annie Smith, is a woman of many identities. In some of her other lives, she has been an award-winning screenwriter, novelist, editor, and occasional planter of Douglas firs. But her favorite role is that of proud mother to ten-year-old author and deep-dyed Harriet fan Sophia M. Gold. They live in New York.
LOUISE FITZHUGH was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended Bard College, studied art in Italy and France, and continued her studies in New York at the Art Students League and at Cooper Union. Her groundbreaking first children’s novel, Harriet the Spy®, was followed by The Long Secret and Sport, and all are acclaimed as milestones of children’s literature. These classics delight children year after year.
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