Rereading Alice: Alice In-Between

It's the train trip to Chicago! Also so many terrible men!

Aunt Sally said it happened to her, and to my cousin Carol. Dad said it happened to Mom.

“The summer between seventh and eighth grades,” he told me, “was when she really blossomed into a beauty. You can tell by her photos.”

I’m not totally sure how I feel about Alice’s dad saying this, but mostly I land on…it’s weird, Ben. Also this was extremely inaccurate for me. All I got between seventh and eighth grades were braces and what could charitably be called a habit of disordered eating.