“That’s not what I’m being. Since I’m not a twelve-year-old girl.” “Twelve-year-old girls are fierce and fantastic, Jacob, so we can agree. You are not one, poised on the cusp of womanhood and hovering on the verge of entering a society that will do its level best to make her hate herself, yet still capable of joy and childlike wonder.”
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Hazel Beck,
Small Town, Big Magic