This book will have you digging through that tattered box of junior high treasures to find your journal chronicling moments of per-pubescent angst and exhilaration. That is, unless like me, you destroyed them all in an performance of high level drama brought about by a life changing event you cannot now recall.
Mortified began as an in-your-face stage show in which individuals read their teen memoirs, interjecting commentary by their now older and wiser selves. If you want to get in on the fun, you can catch episodes on Netflix, or or can read the book. I guarantee, these entries will take you right back to junior high school
You will meet love sick Alexa, who met one-sentence-Sam at music camp. She couldn't take her eyes off him during band sessions, fantasizing about a life playing their clarinets together late into the night. They never spoke. After camp, Alexa wrote long, effusive letters to him professing her undying love which he promptly answered with single sentence. "Stay cool." "Write back whenever." Things like that. Sam had a girlfriend but Alexa didn't care.
Poor Carolyn Waddle Almos, pictured on the cover, bemoans the fact that she never met Anne Frank. While living in England for a three month stretch, she dreams of a miraculous transformation from nerd to Eliza Doolittle.
13-year-old Jillian writes fan fiction about living with Duran Duran after her parents perish in a garage fire. Law Tarello worries about a horse that the Ringling Brothers circus rigged up into a unicorn. How will the horse's family ever recognize him?
On and on it goes, At times, the stories are cringe worthy, but the comfortableness, I am sure, comes from a gargantuan blast from the past flashback, and the recognition that, I too, might have worried about that horse's family.
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