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A Thanksgiving I'll Never Forget By: Allie and Alexis (LaWanda is standing at stage left talking to the audience) LaWanda: My big sister is a senior in high school. She's quiet, mature, and hardly ever raises her voice. I'm not like that; I used to be, but... when I hit high school, things changed. As soon as I was a freshman, I wanted different friends than the band geeks in middle school. And the popular people liked the new me. We would hang out at the lockers and talk about the latest nerd with suspenders that walked by or talk about all the work our science teacher piled on us. I wanted to hang out with boys more, and they wanted to h

Kandi's voice rung in Anna's mind like giant church bells on Sunday morning. "How have you been sleeping? Are the nightmares gone?" It had been almost two years since she started getting the nightmares. Shrink after shrink after shrink said that it was normal for a girl to have nightmares after going through what she did, that it would wear off in a few weeks when things went back to the normal routine. Anna knew they wouldn't go away, the shrinks were wrong. One week passed after another, followed by one more week and backed up by another week and still the nightmares came. Nightmare after nightmare after nightmare… She still had them. Some

"Bugger," he growled. I pressed my hands to my mouth, holding back a giggle as I sat behind the wooden ladder. I looked up, seeing a brown leather boot at the edge. I smiled and blinked, watching him as he paced back and forth like a caged animal. But he wasn't a caged animal, he couldn't be caged because he was safe and free on the sea. Over on the other side of the ship I could see her. She was staring out over the railing with a far away look on her face, one that I knew. Part of me felt bad for her, but the other was glad she was having a bad time. I saw the way she  was prying against the Captain and I didn't like it. Besides, she was