Puddin' (Dumplin', #2)

by Julie Murphy

YOU HAVE AS MANY HOURS IN A DAY AS BEYONCÉ. (I made one for Willowdean that replaced Beyoncé’s name with Dolly Parton, both of whom are goddesses in my humble opinion.)

My magic truth—the thing that has changed everything for me—is this: the body I have shouldn’t change how deserving I am of my dreams. I stopped obsessing over my body being too round or too wide or too lumpy. Because I’m not too much of anything. I’m just enough. Even when I don’t feel like I am.

“If you only love what comes easy for you, you’ll find you don’t have much to love. Work for it, girl.”

And why is everyone always trying to take money away from libraries? Aren’t books sort of the reason we’re even in school at all?