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Six People from My Childhood (Their Perspective)
Posted on Nov 17th, 2006
by 
Dawn
Dawn
1. Doug Campbell: I asked you to be my girlfriend and then I never saw you again. What happened?
2. Mr. McKinley: I wish you Owens kids would straighten up and fly right.
3. Joey Mock: I used to play house with you in the garden. We hid behind beanstalks and ate peppers all summer long.
4. Kelly Bryan: Who are you again?
5. Mike Gaus: We could have been together forever. I really loved you, but you were not serious. You broke my ring on the monkey bars. Did it mean nothing to you?
6. Kathy Power: I had to stop being your friend in sixth grade because my pastor said it would be better to hang out with people who believed the same things I do. You might pull me off onto the wrong path.
3. Joey Mock: I used to play house with you in the garden. We hid behind beanstalks and ate peppers all summer long.
4. Kelly Bryan: Who are you again?
5. Mike Gaus: We could have been together forever. I really loved you, but you were not serious. You broke my ring on the monkey bars. Did it mean nothing to you?
6. Kathy Power: I had to stop being your friend in sixth grade because my pastor said it would be better to hang out with people who believed the same things I do. You might pull me off onto the wrong path.
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Clever. Very, very clever! :)
It is from a writing workshop I took with Lynda Barry (Writing the Unthinkable). You are supposed to write down a list of 20 kids/people from your childhood and then write a third person sentence about each one. Then go through the same list again, but write a sentence or two in the second person. Then do it one more time, but write in the first person, from their perspective, about you. It can really dredge up alot of memories. You are supposed to do it very quickly, like 7 minutes each time you pass through the list. And not edit yourself while you are writing, nor after. I could only manage 6 or 7 kids in my list when I was in the workshop back in November.