High Heels and Lipstick (26 page)

Authors: Jo Ramsey

BOOK: High Heels and Lipstick

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Dear Taffy,

Thank you for sharing your story on the show. I'm sixteen, and I get bullied a lot at school. I'm sorry you were bullied, and I'm glad you're still around. I love watching you on the show and I hope you win.

I added my first name at the end and hit send. While I finished the rest of my homework, I agonized about the e-mail.
What if I sounded stupid? What if she thinks I'm a stalker or something? What if I should have told her more about me?

I was good at what-ifs, and I could do them to death. Taffy probably received thousands of e-mails every day, and I wanted to stand out from the crowd. I wouldn't do that if I'd sounded like a starstruck kid. But I couldn't take it back. It was out there in cyberspace, or more likely already in Taffy's inboxes, and I couldn't do anything about it.

Fortunately, after a while tiredness overwhelmed the agonizing. I put down the Spanish homework I hadn't finished yet, lay down, and fell asleep in the clothes I'd worn all day.

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About the Author

J
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AMSEY
is a former special education teacher who now writes full time. She firmly believes that everyone has it in them to be a hero, whether to others or in their own lives, and she tries to write books that encourage teens to be themselves and make a difference. Jo has been writing since age five and has been writing young adult fiction since she was a teen herself; her first YA book was published in 2010. She lives in Massachusetts with her two daughters, her husband, and two cats, one of whom likes to read over her shoulder.

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