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While Linn is upstairs washing her big Swedish headful of hair in preparation for her First Blogging Experience, I am going to write this down before I forget:

The movie, "Never Been Kissed", starring Miss Drew Barrymore, is about me.
I watched it last night here at Mint Manor at 3 am and the similarities are STUNNING. (For the record, I thought the plot was airy and stupid, but the performances and cast were very good indeed.) Witness:

1. Heroine woman in early-mid twenties with little to no sexual experience (hence the title).
2. Heroine not a stick figure (although I ain't no Drew Barrymore, at least she isn't a wafer.)
3. Heroine knits and makes things like pillows in her spare time. The quilt on heroine's bed EXACTLY the kind of thing I would have in my room; in fact, heroine's apartment almost exactly how I would decorate my own apartment.
4. Heroine has a pet turtle. (!!!)
5. Heroine clings to her love of "proper/standard" grammar and often corrects people without thinking on their choice of words.
6. Heroine fancies herself a poet, to less-than-stellar results.
7. Heroine's only real friend in high school a bespectacled, brilliant young woman with thick glasses.
8. Heroine and said friend BOND OVER "Free to Be You and Me"!!!!
9. Heroine's high school experience miserable.

Every single one of these, down to the bespectacled best friend bonding over "Free to Be", describes me EXACTLY.
To be sure, there are several differences: I'm not a looker like Miss Barrymore, I'm no good at math, I'm not blonde, I would never wear a pink boa in public. But I think I would DEFINITELY hang out with Molly Shannon, were the opportunity to arise.

Also, during one part of the movie they played an R.E.M. song that my friend Robert sent me that I love and have never heard anywhere else. {g}

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