EXCEPT PHILLIP!!!!!!!!

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true.
And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

my friend whitney recently recalled the above quote... (actually, it was her status on facebook, but it sounds better if i just make it sound like we sit around all day and recite meaningful, thought-provoking quotes to each other) ... and it made me laugh, because it sorta sounds like my life. when you get down to it, i think the only way i've survived all the stories i have is that i've learned to laugh at them... and myself.

the following is truly one of the more vulnerable accounts of the aforementioned stories... in picture form. my mom found a second-grade love letter i had written to the then-love-of-my-life, dillon gray. it's terrifying to think i actually said things like this, and that notes like this still exist in real, tangible form. {cringe.} it's also important to note that i am not so pretentious to think that the words i am currently writing will not in later years be looked back upon with equivalent disdain. {cringex150.}


reads:
"Dear Dillon, I loved the letter! That, is I also love you! One Thing I want to know is why you never picked me to go to the office or do anything?Please forgive me for anything I did! You know every time I Kick you I, do that because I like you!Every Wednesday I always look forward to sitting next to you! That's because I like you! I'm SO glad you like me! By the way I've only showed the note to Bethany. Why do you always act like you hate me? I hate it when you ometimes are mad at me! please write back! DON'T SHOW THIS TO ANYONE!!! EXCEPT PHILLIP!!!!!!! Love, Ali P.S. Sorry so sloppy! I did it on my typewriter! Love, Ali"

and if you're wondering what kind of person writes letters like this that sound so incredibly controlling/passiveagressive/insecure/forward, please refer to SecondGradeMe in the picture below, on the right, who adamantly declared to my mother that Converse high-tops were "the ONLY appropriate choice" to pair along with a twinsie-with-my-sister-Christmas-sweater-that-actually-had-embellishments-hanging-off-of-it. makes a lot more sense now, huh? {CRINGEx587.}

somehow, this HAS to be my mother's fault.