I was reading over a new book we got in this week - P.S. I hate it here - children's letters home from camp. They're slighty heartbreaking at times, but almost always very funny. And one thing really strikes me about them, the way a kid will bounce from subject to subject with no idea how it reads. "I hate it here, I hate it here, please pick me up, please please please. We had really good brownies for dessert last night" - might be one example. Or the kid who details a list of disasters from bug bites to getting beaned in the soccer game to scraping both knees - next sentence "I'm fine." Imagine an adult writing in that style - "I was in a terrible accident today, I was thinking of something else, and went right through a stop sign. I hit someone but thank God no one was hurt. I just found the best color of nail polish! Moonshell pink!" or maybe - "My cat died yesterday. I've had him for so long - over 15 years, I'm really going to miss him so much. Johnny Depp is getting divorced!" It would seem downright peculiar for an adult to write that way, but kids do it all the time. I have my grade and junior high school diaries as proof. And P.S - I survived both camp and junior high.
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