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Vindy Loo
Pacolet Valley, North Carolina USA
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Advice to Vindy at age fifteen
1. Resist the urge to cut off the arms of your father's shirts and wear them as headbands. You will be glad you did.
2. Don't waste your time crying over Andrew. He will be fixated on the idea of having an Asian girlfriend for at least fifteen more years.
3. Don't throw away the green journal with the polka dots, no matter how embarrassed you are of it now. Don't rip your drawings up, either.
4. Ask your dad how to shoot a rifle. Ask him about Viet Nam, even though you're not into war stories. Ask him about his father. When he is dying in fifteen years, he will have wished he could have taught you more about these things.
5. Tina only wants to scare the shit out of you when you're high. Watch out. She will spray your weed with Raid roach spray, then tell you about it after it's too late. That's bad.
6. The reason Ms. H is so hard on you is that she's disgruntled about being an art teacher instead of a full-time Òahh-tiste.Ó Don't let her remarks discourage you from being creative.
7. Talk to Oscar about getting help for his suicidal behavior. He won't actually ever kill himself, but he'll have a really awful time in college, and will end up losing his house, car, and most of his possessions by the time he's thirty.
8. German is a cool language, but Spanish is infinitely more useful and fun.
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