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My thoughts returned to the dance I was so excited, I had to lie down and rest before I got dressed I know I dozed for nearly an hour before htened I had slept too long I was only asleep for twenty minutes, but still I hurried to put on my dress Then I put on a little more lipstick than ever before and perfectedat myself in the mirror

Was I really pretty, as pretty as Moht I was and, of course, Cary did, too, but I never felt like the girl Mo ly, I decided, but I was no raving, round and not let irls I knew at school

Everyone was just finishing dinner when I went downstairs Moether and cried out as soon as I entered the dining roo froe, dark look

"You're beautiful, honey Just beautiful Isn't she, Jacob?" Mommy said

"Vanity is a sin, Sara She looks fine, but there's no reason to blow her so full of steam she explodes," Daddy chastised However, he wore a very proud expression as well

"Now you just wait right there," Mo room

"How do I look, Cary?" I asked him I couldn't stand the fact that he wouldn't look my way

"Fine," he said quickly and dropped his gaze to his plate "Ito the dance, too," Daddy told him

"It's stupid," Cary muttered

"How's that?"

"I'm not interested in any old dance," he snapped Daddy's eyebrows lifted

"Well, it's a well-chaperoned affair, isn't it? Teachers are there, right?"

"What's that matter, Dad?" Cary said with a smirk "Teachers are in school, too, but kids ss"

"What other things?"

"Other things," Cary said, realizing he was digging hiht not easily clis kids do"