February 28, 2024 • 68 mins
Bestie has joined a dance troupe. There is a bit of bitching, some romance, and lots of waiting by the phone for a particular boy to call.
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I've known my bestie for fifteen yearsnow, but what was she like before
I met her? Welcome to Diaryof my Bestie, where she reads to
me her childhood diaries. All thenames and identifying places have been changed to
protect the innocent and the guilty,but we're also staying anonymous. So if
you think you know us, noyou don't. Welcome back to Diary of
My Bestie. Hello bestI, HelloBestie, how are you going. It's
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been a bit of a rough day, but yeah, now it's bestI time,
and that's the best medicine. Indeed, I had one at myself and
everything was just like yep, justgotta make it through, Just make it
through, and then okay. Cool. So now in comfy pajamas in the
cool it's a very good, goodtime to be with you. It is,
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yes, So how are we goingin the world of you? Back
then? Well, in the lastepisode it ticked over to nineteen ninety m
hmm, and I liked a boycalled Billy after breaking up with Nigel.
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That's quite a broad statement to say. It was the early nineties and I
like a boy called Billy because youcould have gone it's been twelve hours in
the nineties, and I've liked aguy called Billy because the transient nature of
your affections. Yes, slightly fickle, nice, yes, and you had
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high standards and not everyone. Thisis true. This is true. I
thought somebody might be nice, andthen I got to know them and they
just didn't live up to my expectations. Yes, or that didn't come skating,
yeah either or yeah, same thing. And at the end of it
where we're kicking off today, atthe end of the last episode, I
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was at the maths and science summerschool. That's right, yep, nerd
can It was sort of towards theend of January, just before I went
back for the year. Nice.Now, if you can remember, in
one of the last episodes, Iwent shopping and one of the things that
I bought was the nineteen ninety CountdownDiary. Ah, yes, your love
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affairs with diaries, I remember,yes, Yeah, So this was more
like a date book than a journal. But for whatever reason, I stopped
writing in my regular diary and Istarted using the Countdown Diary as a daily
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journal. So rather than just havinga ruled page book that you'd write the
date in, you had one ofthose books. That were segmented into chunks.
Was it per week or per day? It was a week to spread?
Okay, yes, So I wasabout to think a three hundred and
sixty five page Countdown nineties diary wouldn'thave been in your sort of economic wheelhouse.
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Let's just say. Yeah. SoI went back and forth a little
bit between the two. And soso would you say that your long pros
was the ruled book and this Countdownbook was very much just a summary entry
when you remember to do it,absolutely, okay, So it doesn't last
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a long long time. But todifferentiate between the two, I'm going to
let you know when I'm in theCountdown diary and when I'm in my regular
diary. Okay, all right.And there's also a little bit of a
gap because these entries are in theCountdown Diary and they start on Sunday,
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February the eleventh, nineteen ninety sonot too much of a jump two three
weeks something like that. Okay,So here we go. Today I went
to Mike's church. It was wonderful. It was the closest I felt to
God for ages. So if youcan remember, Mike has a girlfriend called
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Kimberly and her dad is a ministeryep, and this was his church.
Also, if you don't feel closeto God in a church, well,
technically it was a school hall becauseit was a very small church. They
didn't have a dedicated building. Sobut isn't isn't that the thing though?
Any building that you do something inis the church absolutely, or the church
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is the people who Yeah, therewas a church across from an old place,
a place I used to work manyyears ago. It was literally a
the back part of a storage shedand they were used to get keep their
chairs in the storage shed and theyopen it up and have it outside.
Ohne, It really wasn't because therewas times I reckon it would have rained
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on them. But yeah, yeah, yeah, Dad hasn't been very nice
lately. Mum got the wrong paperthis morning. Dad got cross with her
for it. Don't know what thatwas about. We may have we may
have young listeners. So can youexplain what are going gonna sound so old?
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Can you explain what a paper is? To a newspaper where people wrote
stories and they got printed on paperand then you had to go down to
the shop and buy one or haveit delivered to your home. Every morning,
What a crazy nation, amazing,and then we'd line the book.
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No, once it was printed,that was it. If you had to
take something back, you had towrite a retraction and print it in a
subsequent edition of the newspaper. Thatmy fondest memories of the newspaper is we
used to collect tokens and you wereable to go and get coins from the
news agent for two dollars. SometimesI had a complete set of coins for
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I think it was Jurassic part Yes, so yes, in the old days.
Yes, we'll get our walking framesout. That will continue. I
have dancing tomorrow and I get tosee Trevor. Okay, a quick flashback
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for all our listeners who where inthe family treats Trevor fit Well, I
haven't mentioned him before, Okay,all right, so this is a new
new character enters these stories. SoI have just met him because of this
dancing thing that I've just started beinginvolved with. I was just about to
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ask. It was all skating,skate, skate, and now dancing is
a thing, and they were kindof what type of dancing. It was
very like modern like around the time, like house dancing, house music and
house dancing was popular So what thiswas, and it's actually partially got something
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to do with skating, is thatthere was a group of people in their
late teens early twenties who used toget up on stage at a local nightclub
and do choreographed routines and try andget people jazzed about dancing. Okay,
so they rehearsed at skating rink whenit wasn't open for skating because they knew
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the assistant manager, okay, andthe assistant manager I got this idea of,
hey, maybe we should put togetherthis little troop of what they called
the junior dancers, and obviously notto dance at the nightclub, where these
older kids can teach some stuff tothe younger kids, and we'll get these
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junior dancers to perform at discos andlike open days and stuff like that.
Okay, So you're talking about whenyou'd sign your kid up for a dance
studio and then you have this,oh, we're going to go perform at
a shopping center, when really isit's just a live ad for the dance
studio. Yeah, they weren't technicallya dance studio. They were literally just
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like employed by the nightclub. Andwe couldn't advertise the nightclub obviously. No,
it was just it was just forfun. So it was myself,
Meegan Henderson, Yeah, Naomi,etcetera, the sisters and Shona who had
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come we'd had that big slumber party, and then one of their friends and
her sister, so that's who was. Okay, So was this a you
tried out for it and you wereselected or is it just like you're the
you're the group that turned up andwent, yeah, we'll do that.
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Yeah, we pretty much turned upbecause we found out about it through the
assistant manager at skating so and toldour friends and just turned up and it
was yeah, just us nice.So that's what that's what this is.
And we rehearsed. I think itwas Monday Sunday afternoons and Monday afternoons,
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Sunday mornings, Monday afternoons, somethinglike that. Anyway, because at this
stage I don't think, okay,there was a skating session on Sunday afternoons
at this stage. So yeah,so that's that. It's not the time
to share with you that I wasin a performing arts group when I was
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younger and dance on stage and allthat type of thing. Is it?
No, I think you did mentionthat when I thought you said dancing,
though not singing, I mean singing. I had to sing part of it,
yeah, but it was mainly dancing. But I was very much inside
the troop. I wasn't a star. Is there video of this? Oh
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my, I think there is mighthappen chess, Yeah, player, I
don't. I don't know. Let'ssay one did exist. Has it survived
the ravages of thirty five years.I don't know, all right, I'm
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going to ask your parents. Itwas me singing happy talk from South Pacific.
Oh, I need to see it. But I was also in.
I was also in at school.We did the Rainbow Connection and I was
There was four of us at thefront dressed as muppets, and I was
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animal, so I had to sing. I had to sing the Rainbow Connection,
but as animal. Is that onthe video? No, that's a
whole different thing. I don't knowif that still survives. But I got
in trouble for swinging my legs toomuch. But I was like, I'm
dressed with like a stocking on myhead that's got like wool coming out of
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it, and I have to singthis whole thing. Ah. Yeah,
no, I'm a little nervous,so I'm going to swing the legs.
But yeah, Basically, the teachersaid, muppets don't swing their legs,
and I'm like, muppets don't havelegs, really do they. If they
do, they can't really swing thembecause they're just hanging off their bodies.
That's true. But yeah, no, so I was animal and sang the
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Rainbow connection as animal. Yeah,and I need to see it, okay,
so can you please try and findit? I will. I will
ask the people who should have thatvideo if it still exists and works,
all right, Okay, I reallyhope that it's still a thing. All
right. So then I finished theentry by saying, I'm starting every day
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with Jesus today. Okay. Sothat was a daily devotional book that came
out every month. Yep, Monday, February twelve, nineteen ninety Today was
excellent. I gave the card toTrevor. Given the date, I would
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think this was a Valentine's card.Maybe, well, we're missing the context
of the previous two weeks. Soyou said that with a confidence. I
gave the card like we're supposed toknow what the card he told he told
Rachel that's one of my dancing slashskating friends. The following he's never had
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anyone before, and he's really nervous. I think it means pads In had
a girlfriend, not had in thecarnival sense of the word, or had
as in the cannibal sense of thanks. He asked how old I was and
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when my birthday is his own?That's a bit and I know that's a
bit. I'm sorry, that's alittle bit sketchy, Like I get like,
yeah, how old is she?The birth date so I can verify
that it's legal. That's a littleHis birthdays on September four, that's ten
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days before mine, older or youngerthan you? That right now? It
doesn't say, okay, is hea long term player in our story or
is he another day player. There'sa little bit. Okay, cool,
awesome, just working out how investedto get into a young friend. He
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liked the card. Isn't that excellent? I got his address and phone number.
He has a German shepherd dog.Very important. I think this is
it. Okay, okay, allright, he is nineteen. How old
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are you at this day? I'mthirteen? Okay, And this now it
says he is nineteen twenty. Thisyear, we're back into the situation from
a couple of weeks ago where you'regoing to the drive in with Basic,
your grandpa, and he gets pissedoff that he doesn't get to get handsy
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with you. Okay, all right, all right, well it was a
different time. I don't like it, but for the narrative's sake, breeze
passed. Yes, Okay, Nowit's Wednesday, February fourteen, nineteen ninety
today. Also, kudos to youfor having the guts to give a Valentine's
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Day card to a nineteen year oldwhen you're thirteen. I had a lot
of confidence, obviously misplaced, Ithink, but it was there. You
shot your shot, I did.You never missed a shop. You never
missed a shot because you didn't takeit. That's right. Today is the
best day ever. I started goingyesterday. Yeah, I started going out
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with Trevor. Okay, Well,what happened to old mate? Who was
the in the picture a couple ofdays ago? Which one? Billy?
Well you like someone? Yeah,Billy? What's hap it to? Billy?
Did you lose his number? Iguess? In between the summer school
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and starting actual school and this dancingI've lost interest. Okay, two whole
weeks all right, thank you,thank you, Billy for your service.
Well you'll be in our thoughts always. So Trevor is going to be teaching
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the junior dancers, so excellent.Okay, so he's my boyfriend to sir
with love situation Okay, yeah,I understand, all right. And now
it says back to regular diary okay, okay, And it's Saturday, February
seventeen, nineteen ninety so I skippeda few days, dear diary. Gosh,
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it's been almost a month since Ilast wrote in here, because you
know, separate Diary, I ammadly and profoundly in love with Trevor Skinner.
Yum. Okay do your parents knowthis at the stage or is it?
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Are they aware or they just likeokay, don't know. Tonight,
Kelly and Corey are staying the nightwhile their parents go out. So that's
Kelly, my ex next door neighborand her little brother yep. Okay,
yeah, Kelly and I are goingskating, Megan is getting a lift with
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us, and Trevor is bringing meand Kelly home. Oh okay, so
my parents must have known, probablydidn't know that he was my boyfriend.
No, no, and for goodreason. It's like, yeah, I'll
drive your daughter, a thirteen yearold daughter home, I missed a nineteen
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year old man. Okay, andI've got a friend with me too,
Like yeah, okay, well probablyshe was taking a moonshot. Yeah,
oh dear, we'll probably hone aroundfor a bit first. Oh yeah,
okay, is that what they calledit in the nineties. We're just going
to yes, gee, all sortsof things have happened, but I've got
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nothing to say. So just didTrevor did you ask Trevor out? Or
did Trevor ask you out? Doeshe know that you're his boyfriend? I
can't remember, but we yeah,we definitely he knew. Like we used
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to talk. He used to comedown when we had rehearsal. We'd both
get there early and hang out uptalking stuff before it started. All right,
yeah, okay, and we talkedon the phone. Okay, all
right, okay. I am goingto get very protective of you, so
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I'm always just be like, remember, I'm very good with my agency.
Yes I understand, but also totwo feet and a heart beat with you
I'll give myself a facial now.And me and Keurley were right after skating.
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Ah the old times times when thatwriting, that sentence was was not
a suspense. Stop it, you'reterrible. How long have you known me?
And you say that sentence and expectnot to react, especially thirteen year
old talking about your nineteen year oldboyfriend going out for hooning? Yeah no,
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just drop that sense that was atrap. I know your game.
Skincare Okay, skincare anyway you sayit doesn't sound better? Yeah, okay,
I'm just gonna move on. Yeahtoo later. And this little bit
is written by Kelly. Okay,so guest starring Kelly. Hi, I'm
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Kelly Reeves. Trevor is pretty cute, but a bit of an asshole.
He seems a bit creepy. I'mon team Kelly here. Kelly's got the
got the feelers out going. Okay, all right. I like Justin Birch.
He's real cute, he's pretty rich, he owns a BMW. I
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like him because he's not a bastardto me. He's cute and he's nearly
rich. So that was also Kelly. Kelly. Kelly is a is a
person of simple taste and those whatshe wants, so I'll give her that.
So Justin didn't own to BMW.His parents owned to be in because
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Justin was in. I think theyher and Justin would have been in grade
six. Yes, yeah, nowit's back to me. Good a.
Trevor was a bit of a bastardtonight. He hurt his knee and mightn't
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be going to practice tomorrow. I'llgive him a ring tomorrow morning and invite
him around. He mightn't come over. He's very stubborn. But then again,
he said I'm persistent good night.Okay. So he was an asshole
because he hurt himself. I don'tknow if the tour related, okay,
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yeah, but if I remember correctly, I'm maybe mixing it up with another
night. But he kind of ignoredme a little bit at skating, Okay,
yeah, okay. So, andhonestly, thinking back to those times,
I wonder if did he actually ignoreyou, or you, with your
thirteen year old perception, interpreted somethingas ignoring you when really it was just,
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oh, he had other stuff todo. It could have been that,
But then Kelly thought he was abit of an asshole. So she's
seen something as Kelly also thinks thatanother grade six owns W of BMW.
So as much as I like Kelly, we're not going to go with Kelly
here. And did she say hewas a bit of an asshole because you
said it was a bit of anasshole? Yeah, because she was trying
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to possible yep. Then she saidhe was a bit creepy. No,
she said he was creepy. AndI didn't think he was creepy, of
course not. You're the thirteen yearold dating nineteen year old. He was
very good looking though he had kindof longish blonde surfer hair. Yeah,
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he had quite musky ten brown eyes. He was really good looking. He's
not anymore. And I know thisbecause I've stalked him on Facebook. Okay,
was just remember he was a wholehalf of you older, so yes,
thirteen verse nineteen. He had liveda whole half of a life more
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than you. So when you putit in that way, it's like,
okay, all right, yep,Okay, I'm not casting dispersions on a
good friend, Trevor. But we'llsee how we get. Yes, we'll
find out more about him. OnSunday, February eighteen, nineteen ninety eleven
thirty am, Dear, Diary,time check. Yep, I've wrung Trevor's
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place three times, but no onehas answered. I think he might be
asleep. Oh, he could have. I've been in a car accident and
he might be in hospital with hisparents visiting. Okay, not his parents
might have been an accident and hewas visiting them. I'm getting a little
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bit dramatic here, just touch Yeah, oh god, what if that's true?
No, I won't think about it, okay, Ye, all right,
I understand the sentiment, but it'sjust like when you look back and
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you go, yeah, okay,it was in an accident and his parents
are visiting it of course, perfecthe's a sleeper, having a sleeping or
where he's gone out for breakfast,out blowing the lawn or anything. Yeah.
I dreamt about him last night,Okay. I don't remember everything,
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just that he was near me allthrough the dream. I was hoping that
I'd wake up with him next tome, but I didn't. Okay,
And for Trevor's sake as well,glad that didn't happen. For so many
reasons. Statutory rape. Let's gothere, Kelly and Corey have just left.
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Kelly only likes Justin because he's rich. That is so stupid. Okay,
at least she knows. At leastshe knows what she wants. Yes,
at least they're the same age.I wasn't gonna say it out loud,
but yes, there's lots to say. The baby ring neck doves are
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so cute. I named them afterTrevor and Deborah. I'll try ringing Trevor
again at twelve. Okay, evenif he can't go to practice, he
could come over here and we couldget a video or watch one of the
ones we already have here, orwe could barricade ourselves in the music room
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and talk, or go out forlunch, or read Dolly magazine or listen
to music, or hoon around townor go out to the lookout or anything,
as long as I'm with him.Okay, Okay, right on behalf
of Trevor. I'm saying, liketwo of those three like reading Dolly magazines
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on behalf of Trevor. I hopethat's code. Well, I don't know
most people I knew you liked DollyDoctor, no matter how are they were.
Yeah, and there's a reason whyyou like Dolly Doctor because it had
the stuff in it that you're youshouldn't be reading with a thirteen year old.
It's about John, look at that? What are you reckon about that?
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Do you want to try that?Megan Harrison is turning into a bit
of a Jenny Laundrigan. So Jennyis one of the dancing girls, okay,
and she is like a bit ofa know it all and she's really
bossy. Okay. Jenny invited Meganto her party but didn't invite me.
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No, Surrey, that's not cool. What a big bitch slut dog tut
can't fuck it? Ask? Ican hear you. You are definitive with
your emotional reaction. It's love orit's you. May you die in a
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fire. May I remind you thata week ago was a church and now
I'm at home. May I remindyou that ten minutes ago you wanted a
nineteen year old to come around andhoon around you when you're thirteen. So
everything's off the table. Oh,here we go. Here's an explanation of
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what had happened the night before.Trevor sort of pretended I wasn't there last
night. He kind of ignored me, like he didn't want to be seen
with me. Okay, thirteen minutesuntil I ring him, counting down,
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did anyone answer the phone? Let'ssee. I'm going to go and read
Dolly magazine until it's time to ringup that gorgeous hunk of a guy.
I hope he answers. Maybe hethinks it's me calling and that's why he's
not answering. Don't even think ofthat. This is a fastening insight into
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the mind of a thirteen year oldcatastrophizing. Yes, bye for now.
Wish me luck. I'm going toneed it. Okay, all right,
Later I let it ring until itrang out. I'll try again in half
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an hour. He has to comehome sometime, and even if he doesn't
come home until tonight, at leastI'll get to talk to him, and
I'll invite him around tomorrow night afterpractice. I'll sign off now until I
ring him again. Okay, okay, bit of building a bit of suspense
here. Later I rang him againand he still hasn't answered. I'm getting
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really mad. I'll ring Meagan Hendersonaround two and see if she's going to
practice practically on the verge of tears. It's really not fair. I hope
nothing's happened to him. Bye.Is there more to come on this day
or later? Okay? Cool?I didn't keep it wrong. I didn't
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ring him again before I left.I went to practice and rang him as
soon as I got there. Hewas home. Okay, he's still in
pain. Okay, his knee.He was working this morning, so he
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has a job. Yes, didyou know this? Probably in your catastrophizing.
Did it come across your mind thathe could be working. It's not.
It can't be working. It hasto be an accident. His parents
must be there. Anyway. Weleft practice early because nobody else showed up,
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so it was just you and him, me and Meghann. I'm going
tomorrow though, because Sunday and Monday. Yep, I'm ringing Trevor tonight.
Sometime. He said he'd talk tome. Then. He's so gorgeous.
I'm glad nothing bad happened to him. But he was still mean to me
last night, which is why Ihave to talk to him. Okay,
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yep, he doesn't know. I'mgetting really bored sitting here and writing,
but there's nothing else to do.I hope somebody wrings me up. I
don't know what many people call generally, Yeah, because you know, it's
not like we could text or emailor anything. It was just phone calls,
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true, all letters that would takea while to to reach. That
was never I never got phone callsor letters or anything. I was on
the phone a lot. Okay,Hannah Hillcrest was at skating last night.
That's school friend. She is sopretty. She reckoned Trevor. Was a
real sweetie and she was very happyfor me. She's such a nice girl.
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She sorted everything out with her oldies, and she's not going to sneak
out anymore. Okay, there's abit of a backstory to this. Yeah,
she used to sneak out after herparents went to bed and go driving
with boys and stuff. Right,But her bedroom was kind of on the
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second floor above the garage, andshe used to jump out her window onto
the driveway. And this particular timeshe did that and she felt funny and
she split her lip open, andso of course her parents knew because she
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had to go to hospital and getstitches. Did you try to call her
several times when she did this?And that's when you could have been worried
about being a hospital And it's probablylike one o'clock in the morning or something.
Yeah, I wouldn't stop you.So that's when her parents found out
what. I don't know how shegot back in her house since it was
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on the second store. Bedroom wason the second story, unless that were
one of those families that always lefttheir back door open or something potentially,
or there was an easy way toclimb up. Yeah, but she always
had a little scar on her lipafter that. Okay, so that's right,
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that little bit of backstory, isthere? My chemical romance when you
break your foot from jumping out,when you break your lip, split lip.
If Trevor is going to practice tomorrownight, I might see if he
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could pick me up and take mehome. That would be good, seeing
he come straight from work. Hecould pick me up early, or I
could get Mum to drop me downearly, or I could walk down.
I think I'll do the last thing. Then he could bring me home.
I could invite him in for awhile and he could meet Dad, Cleo
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and the birds. We could talkfor a while. I better not start
dreaming just in case he doesn't come. I'm going to get a drink now
because I'm so thirsty. Clearly byyour diary. You're thirsty, but maybe
not for a drink later. Okay, well same day, Yeah, I
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got a drink red. Watch TVhow to shower, wash my hair,
and play the organ. It's onlytwenty past six. I'm ringing Trevor at
seven thirty pm. That's when Ten'sComedy Hour is on. But I can
easily skip that. I skip.Oh you can't, can't stop it?
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Comedy Company Classic, I know,I know Trevor's more important. Oh be
bold statements saying that to me.I mean, I skipped church this morning,
didn't I? Well, yeah youdid. But you're also trying to
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phone your hook up. So youstarted every morning with Jesus, except this
morning when you were trying to findout where the mangled corpse of your nineteen
year old boyfriend was. Yep.Anyway, it's worth it to talk to
Trevor. Okay, I have toask him if he's coming to the overnight
skate another one. Okay, we'vehad a bit of a s sketchy situation
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with these type of things. Sointeresting, it's going to be so cool,
even better if Trevor will be there. I'm going to stay up all
night again. I'll skate more.This time Rachel Kendall is coming. Her
mom doesn't know it. She's tellingher mum she's staying at her friends,
but instead she and her friend willbe at the overnight skate. Scandalous,
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Yes, so scandalous obviously, myfriends starting to get into that lie to
your parents to sneak out and goplaces you're not really supposed to be stage.
Yeah see, but you you arenot that you're just dating nineteen year
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old and telling my parents apparently,uh or telling them something that's true,
maybe not the whole truth. Lieby omission. This is you could have
a don't stand so close to mesituation where they think that Trevor's you're instructor,
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but don't know that you want aninstruction on it maybe Okay. For
Tea, where you have warm carwas warm and dry. Car was warm
and dry. I don't even rememberwhat type of car he hard. I
think it was yellow. I don'tknow. Okay. For Tea, we
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are having these lamb strips that havebeen rolled with seasoning on them. Yummy.
Okay, that's remember back then whenthat was fancy seasoning. Yeah.
Rolled. We were just talking aboutwhat to do with leftovers. Just before
we started and it was like,well, you know, we do this
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and you put that on it andthat bit of cheese and yeah, well
usually it would be you know,just some lamb chops or something, probably
four quarter chops. Yeah, soif you had you know, see,
I'd be souving them now and notjust chucking them in the electric fry.
Pin. I am that basic bitwho goes too far with food. So
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yeah, I appreciate it. Idon't know, but still I have Look,
let's just say I was looking atbuying a new barbecue the other week
and one of the thoughts was canI put it in the car and drive
it up to Bestie's house and cookthem? And what number is one of
the considerations? Sorry, what numberbarbecue will this be? Look, I'm
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not going to say double figures,but I'm not not going to say double
figures. But a lot of mybarbecues are in other places that other people
use. That makes all the difference. Look, just because my parents have
five of my barbecues and pizza oven, I was looking. I was looking
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at a Brazilian barbecue. Laura,It's all very I'll show you later.
Yes, I have to ask missIrish tomorrow if she knows Trevor, miss
Irish is question, she's my Englishteacher. Yes, Oh that's even better.
You couldn't have answered that question better, missus. Irish was your English
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teacher. She used to teach atHill High and that's where he went.
Okay, not that they're the sameage? Are we just breezing over the
top? That was English was taughtby Irish? Ah? Good, thank
you good. I wonder if Trevorstill wants to go out with me.
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I hope so if he doesn't,I'll probably go into one of those deep
depression stages where I think I haveto talk to him. You know what
I mean? Are you talking?Maintain the relationship or go out with you?
As in, like, still wantsto be my boyfriend? Okay?
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Cool? Right, anyway, I'vegot to pack my things for school and
eat dinner or right after. Okay, that's very long entries, isn't it?
Very much? Later? I rungstill the same still the same day.
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Okay, I've rung Trevor a coupleof times, but the phone's been
engaged. See kids, Back inthe day, we used to and if
other people were on that same phone, there was no voicemail or if you
had voicemail was fancy because it costsa lot of money. Well, it
costs like five bucks a month,but that was very expensive. Extra to
(40:38):
get a call way that wasn't evenlike answering service that was ca Yeah,
yeah, yeah, you had topay for that, kids. Yeah,
you had to pay for like basicallythe rental of your phone line, and
then for each individual call that youmade on top of that, and then
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for your added features like call waiting, and if you want an answering service,
you got charge when you call theanswering service to get your messages,
it's expense. And he used topick up used to pick up your faint.
We didn't have call or ID,but we had star ten hash.
Were you typing star ten hash?And it dulled people back? Yeah?
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I forgot about that. There yougo. This has been odd moments with
us Nanny and Gramps rang. Crampshas been feeding a cat. It comes
to his house for breakfast and dinner. When it's finished, it goes next
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door to missus Gunnison's for more.Cat's got a downcap. Nanny says,
it's beautiful and very affectionate. Ofcourse you're feeding it twice a day.
I loved missus Gunnison as well asbeing my grand parents neighbor. She ran
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like the corner store type thing downthe street in their town, and she
always asked about us. And shewas old too, she was on her
own, and whenever we visited,she'd keep looking out the door until she'd
see us and she'd wave and she'dgo, hello, kids, how are
we going. It's good to seeyou, and she'd make sure we came
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up to the shop, and thenshe'd tell us to go pick an ice
block out of the freezer for free. So you were her pseudo visiting green
kit. Yeah, okay, Iloved missus Gunnison. I'll just tidy my
room now and then try ringing Trevoragain. Still has it picked up later?
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This whole episode could have just beenTrevor's mum answered, Oh, okay,
she's getting him to ring me backbecause he was at a friend's house.
I hope he doesn't think it's toolate to ring if he gets home
at about eleven thirty pm, Isit too late for him to call?
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If he gets home at eleven thirtypm, might not be too late for
him, but it'd be too latefor my mum, considering it's a school
not yeah, and knowing your momvery much, so his mum is Russian
and has such a groovy accent?Was she in a hurry? Sorry,
Trevor, Why it's a it's ait's a a what do they call it?
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A Pavlovian response? For me?There are certain you know this,
there are certain phrases you say whereI have no control, and it's just
like, so, if you tellme someone's Russian, I'm going why Then
that's such a joke. I know. I don't apologize for it. Trevor
won't tell me his Russian names.So Trevor was like the English version of
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a Russian name, and he hada Russian middle name, but his dad
was Australian, so hence his surnamewas Skinner. Yeah, okay, I
don't think I ever found out either, all right, Maybe it's a state
secret. Maybe he was born inthe same hospital as me, except he
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was six years and ten days oldwhen I was born. But age doesn't
make a difference in most cases,I mean, except statutory rate cases.
They make a lot of difference.I mean, it didn't work with Damien
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or Darren, but it did withTom and now Trevor and you have the
word work is doing a lot ofhaving lifting in the situation because Tom,
that's Tom Watts. Yes, don'tremember going out with him. I was
like, I don't think he'd gowith me because I was twelve when he
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was seventeen, and I definitely didn'twrite about going out with him. But
in Tom's defense, I would liketo remind you that you've had several relationships
with people who didn't know there werea relationship with you. Well, I
wanted to be in a relationship withthem. No, I remember you were.
You were basically girlfriend to people whodidn't know that they were supposed to
(45:45):
be your boyfriend. Who. Oh, there was that one dude who is
He kept going on about like fora good couple of weeks, so you
were like, oh, he's sogreat and he's under it and you hadn't
even there was a letter that nevergot sent to him and all that stuff.
Oh that was Joseph. Yeah,you had. You had. You
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had an involved long distance relationship withthe dude who never got your letter and
didn't know who it was. Soit's like you even got angry at him
and he didn't even know. ButI didn't say I was his girlfriend.
I just had the hots roam somethingchronic. Yeah, but how many times
did you used to write in hisdiary I love you and it was the
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guy you reade all the heaps andnames on. Yeah, that was just
you know, I still didn't thinkI was, but they probably weren't aware
of the extent of my That's whatI'm getting at, is it you were
in a very much relationship with them, but they they have no idea,
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No, yes, consent to sexypeople. Yeahs. So his age appropriations.
The best thing about Trevor is thathe acts his age and he treats
me his age like it's not asthough I was thirteen. Oh that's a
dangerous that's a dangerous He treats mehis age. So he's treating a thirteen
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year old like she's nineteen. Let'sjust put up the flashing lights now and
call Chris Hansen. That's exactly whatI say. Like, it's not as
though I was thirteen going on fourteen. You'd think i'd be nineteen going on
twenty like him. I think it'sI think it's thirteen going on something.
That is nineteen. I think that'swhat he's after. Late, Okay,
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we're still going here. I'm ridingin the kitchen now, drinking coffee.
It's only four past nine. Don'tknow why I'm drinking. Are you drinking
coffee so you stay awake for whenhe calls? Probably? Am? I
don't say that, but I reckonso okay, I can't stand being in
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my room any longer. It's makingme depressed. I'm really really anxious sitting
here waiting for Trevor to call.I'm less depressed than when I'm in my
beddream But the coffee doesn't help mefeeling anxious. Duh, No, it
doesn't. Caffeine and a thirteen yearold is waiting on the boyfriend to call.
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Yeah, no, I wouldn't suspectit would. It does keep me
awake, though, very much.So. Yes, whenever I'm in my
bedroom I think of Trevor. Iwonder why ahmah, that's rude. Yes,
I'm uncomfortable you reading it out.Sorry, it's about to get a
(48:52):
bit worse. Okay, all right, I wonder if Trevor only wants me
for a fuck. Okay, allright, I'll have to question him about
that. Just casually, like I'lljust say, listen, there's something I've
(49:15):
wanted to ask you. How canI say this? Well? Are you
going to bow me like an archaeologistin a museum? A little bit more
subtle than that. Okay, areyou a carpenter? And are you going
to lay me? I? Areyou? Sorry? No? And are
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you an upholsterer? Are you goingto lay me? Are you a carpenter?
Are you going to naw me?Okay, all right, I'm done.
Well, you're not the kind ofguy who'd who take advantage? No,
hang on, who just go outwith a girl for the three f's?
(49:59):
Are you okay? The three fsare? Yes, fine, I'm
everyone. I'm just saying I'm uncomfortablein this situation. But hearing my best
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you describe thirteen year old bestie fantasizingabout a nineteen year old dude, just
going to point out I'm uncomfortable andI am just a passive participant in this
the three I'm not acting. Thethree f's are just something that people used
to talk about at school. Howlike boys who use girls would be right,
we're talking about it now, opeople in their forties. They're talking
(50:45):
about thirteen year old girls, threef's are fine, fuck and forget.
Okay, all right, So ifboys only wanted one thing, we'd say
they're just they just want the threef's. In fairness to boys, you're
over complicating the situation. It's onlyone. I mean, not to defend
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a nineteen year old who's trying totag a thirteen year old thing, but
I don't think the if they hada choice of putting effort in the effort
the start and the effort the backisn't top priority. If they could get
the middle F without putting effort intothe front or the back, it would
be fine. I think you're overestimatingthe keenness of these young dudes for the
(51:31):
other two f's, because find itwould just be whoever comes my way.
Yes, And honestly, it's likeif they could stand still and it came
to them even better what and ifit left afterwards a complicated even further,
because then I say the five fs, oh five, Yes, if you
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drop the word fallatio, now,I'm no. One thousand leaders of ice
cream fine finger. Yes, okay, I'll pay that. That's very uncomfortable
for me to say, but I'llpay that. Fuck Okay, fertilize and
forget. That's a hard core okay, all right, okay, and again
(52:24):
nineteen year old dudes not sticking upfor them. But of that, you
could count out three of the fivef's because I don't think the fourth F
F. Sorry, that's hard tosay. I do not think the fourth
F is something that a nineteen yearold dude is interested in, not intentionally
(52:45):
anyway, Okay, I appreciate that, but fing, fing, then fing,
and then fing then fing a thirteenyear old girl, So the thirteen
year old your gold is fertilized.Yeah, no, I'm going to stick
up a little bit for Trevory hereand go, yeah, that's not on
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his agenda, don't that? Probablynot? No, And I think I
just made up the five f's becausethen I go, haha, that's so
hilarious and funny and crazy and laughableand just plain stupid and wrong. No
guy wants to tag a girl andget it pregnant. It's not a category
or on Tinder, is it.I don't know. I thought you're going
(53:28):
to, oh, you're going tosay it's not a category on Jeopardy.
It's like, what does Jeopardy haveto do with this? Okay, you've
just come up with a five Fthings that include fertilized. As a thirteen
year old girl, you can't reallydrop the criticisms on me here. It's
not my acronyms. So true,and I actually, what is it that
(53:51):
I learned this the other day thatthe difference between an initialism and an anagram.
So the ABC or the BBC isan initialism because you pronounce each of
the initials has letters. It's ABCBBC, where NASA isn't an as a.
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Nasa is its word, and that'sthe acronym. That's really interesting.
Abc is initialism and NASA is anachronism. Yeah, that's cool. I
don't know why I brought that up, but it's been sitting in the back
of my brain going you're going toget to tell this and seem really smart
to someone, and you're interested smarterthan the five fs. Anyway, I'll
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give you props creativity. If Iam a slightly different disappointed that you didn't
go the six f's, I probablydidn't know the falatio. Well, your
new finger and your new fertilizer,so fertilizing would have known a different term
for filatio, didn't didn't start withf Okay, yeah, but I'm saying
(55:10):
if you had dropped six f's,I would have gone, yeah, okay,
fair play, fair play. Whatthe question is what's the progression though?
So is it second f first?I think they're meant to be in
order? Okay? All right,Well it's pretty hard to do four for
four three, yes, unless youunless your two had some magical powers,
(55:35):
unless you're the type of person whowould write into Dolly magazine and say,
can I get pregnant from sitting inspa? How is Babbie form get pregnant?
I'm getting very tired. I mightgo to bed. I'll just get
Mum to wake me up when thephone rings, because I really have to
(55:59):
talk to Trevor. I love Trevor. Okay, yes, I were back
into this way of finishing it.I love Trevor. Okay, all right,
And it's finally that's finally the endof that entry. There's no more
laders, okay, okay, allright, So now we're on to Monday,
February nineteenth, nineteen ninety Dear Diary. I'll just have to write quickly
(56:24):
because I'm about to go to dancing. I hope Trevor's there, I might
have a cigarette with him. Okay, this is a new development. I
remember I've dabbled in it. Hi. Yeah, so I told Hannah I
was still a virgin. She thoughtI was all along. She is so
(56:45):
nice. Okay, hang on,So you told someone that you were a
virgin and they believed you. Butthe way you phrase that just then was
like you weren't. I think Imay have alluded to like because she wasn't.
I think I might. I believe, yeah, that I wasn't.
(57:05):
And then I told her that Iwas. Okay, I understand. I've
got to go now. I'll writesome more later later. Trevor wasn't it
dancing? Rachel and I went upto the phone booth outside the pub,
but there were these drunks there,so we rang Trevor from dancing. And
(57:30):
his mum hadn't seen him since hewent to his friend's place the other night.
I'm writing him a letter now,Okay, Okay, that's a bit
serious. It's probably just ships passingin the night. He probably got home
after she went to bed, andthen she went to work in the morning
(57:51):
while he was still asleep, andwhatever. Okay. Tuesday, February twenty
nineteen. Dear Diary. I've beenringing Trevor for the last fifteen minutes,
but it's been engaged, hopefully.Probably it's Trevor talking to someone. Hmm.
(58:14):
I gave Hannah a carefree tampon todayand she gave me a carefree pantywoner.
It's swapping menstrual products for any particularreason, or it's just like something
you did, I think because weused different brands. Okay, so consumer
(58:36):
testing, Yeah, yeah, Okay, She's bringing me a Med's tampon tomorrow
and a flour tramp on another day. Okay, all right. During English,
all we talked about was rags.Okay, I understand that. Reference
Hannah wears pads to bed and aroundthe house. That was a big thing
(59:01):
because like pads were seen as reallyreally daggy. Yes, even though you
were supposed to wear them overnight,because all the little leaflets and the tampon
boxes say not to leave them infor a certain amount of time or you
increase your risk of toxic shock syndrome. So she's doing the right thing.
(59:22):
And I'm shocked that she actually wearspads to bed. Not pads, Okay,
I should wear them to bed.But I just can't. They are
so uncomfortable. So these were thedays where you're aware that you should get
but these were the days when padsresembled small mattresses. You didn't get all
(59:45):
the ultra thin, wayfer thin onesthat you can get nowadays, and no
wings. Yeah. Yeah, sothey had all kinds of issues. I
read Hannah's diary because she let meinteresting. She brought it to school.
(01:00:08):
She's had one fuck this year andthat was with Mark Barrett. Okay,
may remind you she's thirteen. Yeah. Yeah, that's the uncomfortableness that I'm
expressing. So yes, she saidthat compared to the rest of his body,
(01:00:28):
his dick was a toothpick, andhe walked around the house naked to
find a condom. Okay, allright, bit of body confidence from Mark.
There a bit of body shaving forher. Yeah, she nicks a
(01:00:49):
lot of stuff, but she's stoppingas in shop lit. Yeah, yeah,
well, not nicking as much.She agrees that she agrees that it's
much more enjoyable to buy something withyour own money. We are turning into
really good friends. Okay, Okay, I've been ringing Trevor since I've been
(01:01:16):
riding but it's still engaged. Itold Mama Lie and said I was ringing
Hannah about our history project. Sorry, Hannah, mate, but you can
use me for an excuse whenever youwant. Well, this returns us to
an earlier question about your parents knowing. Yes, so maybe they were wondering
(01:01:40):
why I was ringing my dancing teacher. In fairness to your parents, they
probably knew you're bringing your dancing teacher. They were probably wondering why you were
continuously re dialing your your dance teacheruntil they picked up, probably and organizing
(01:02:05):
to get phone calls at like ninethirty at night from your dance teacher.
Yeah. I just got to learnthese steps. Yep, that important.
I got a letter from Samantha Hilltoday. That's one of my Cambridge friends.
She's still going with Ross. I'llhave to send everybody some photos of
(01:02:28):
me. Hey, a really niceone. I'll get somebody to take one
of me and Trevor. Hey,a nice one of us hugging. Oh
okay, I have aerobics tomorrow.That's for school sports. Yeah, school
sport, okay. Deb Brah isbringing her plastic pants. So these weren't
(01:02:52):
actual plastic. They were kind ofyou know the parachute material track pants.
Yeah, she called them are plasticpants. I don't know what. Late
late eighties, early nineties. Yeah, workout, yeah, yep. Okay,
Speaking of Debra, she is askingDanny zu Zuccoli out soon. I
(01:03:14):
hope he says yes to her.Okay. So he's just another guy in
our grade, all right. Soyeah they come and go. So yeah,
okay, all right, do Ineed Do I need to remember him?
No? Okay? Cool. Imean his name will pop up every
(01:03:34):
now and then in the like throughoutthe school years, but he's not a
main character. He's a yeah,it's got a bit background character. We
get our school ID cards on Thursday. I hope mine looks all right.
Nice. So this was the firstyear that our school had bought in photo
id's, and they were mostly forborrowing books out of the library because that's
(01:03:59):
when they which to barcode scanning forthe library. I just rang Trevor.
His mom must like me now,she must know I'm faithful to my friends.
Anyway, she thought Trevor was asleep, and he was, but thank
goodness, he was home. Thatis a bit of good news to report
to Hannah tomorrow. I'll try ringinghim again tomorrow night. Hmm, Okay,
(01:04:30):
was he really asleep? M Youknow, it's a hard thing for
me to say, but it's like, are you being a little bit too
much? I had a big talkwith Mike this afternoon about Trevor. Mike
(01:04:54):
thinks that Trevor is just one ofthe big world of users. Okay,
all right, but that's his opinion. He doesn't know Trevor as well as
I do. Everyone is worried aboutme. They're all worried that Trevor will
hurt me bad, and Mike reckonsthat him hurting me will ruin my life
(01:05:15):
forever. But Trevor will not hurtme. Never in his whole life would
he do that to me. Althoughyou have developed the three into five f's
to try to find the relationship,Yes, well he is a saint.
(01:05:35):
I'm wondering if Yeah, so you'rewondering if this dude is not only going
to three f you, he's goingto five f you. And yeah,
but no, he's cool. It'scool. Everybody else thinks he's not,
but I know him. They don't. Yeah, Okay, so is Trevor
(01:05:57):
going to hurt me? Yes?He is? He yes, because he's
nineteen and you're thirteen, and youknow what, I'll give him a smaller
amount of grace. He's going tohurt you, but there's a chance that
he hurts you and he doesn't evenknow he's hurts you because you're thirteen.
And if the wind changes you true, well, we're going to have to
(01:06:24):
wait till next episode to find out. All right, well, I'm invested.
Now I've got to see what happensto young Trevor. How long does
Trevor last in our story? Alittle bit longer? Okay, that's right,
be a few more entries about him. Excellent? Okay, cool?
All right, well, love toprocess to a lot of things to cognitively
(01:06:47):
deal with and put aside the factthat it's a nineteen year old and a
thirteen year old. But it's whatwe have to do. Going back in
the diary so far, so thankyou, Besty for continuing to take me
on this interesting Jim, You're welcometell everyone about Instagram before we get out
of here. At Diary of myBestie. It's cool follow us getting some
(01:07:12):
more interactions and stuff there. Yeah, we have actually a few faithful followers
now. Excellent, yes, shoutout to have friends of the pod.
Yes, we do. Shout outto Teresa and around the way, dork
nice and I just had a mindblank. All write them down for next
(01:07:38):
time? Yeah, we don't wantto. We don't. Look, we
don't have that much to list themoff multiple episodes, so we'll spread them
out over a couple. Yeah,we'll do that. But yeah, I
very much appreciate. I'm having heapsof fun over there on Instagram with them.
Well, thank you, Besty.I hope you have a good night
and I can't wait to hear aboutthe next creepy adventure is you and Trevor
(01:08:03):
and we'll see everyone later. Thanksbestie, thank you, good bye bye.
I've known my bestie for fifteen yearsnow, but what was she like before
I met her? Welcome to Diaryof my Bestie, where she reads to
me her childhood diaries. All thenames and identifying places have been changed to
protect the innocent and the guilty,but we're also staying anonymous. So if
you think you know us, noyou don't. Welcome back to Diary of
My Bestie. Hello bestI, HelloBestie, how are you going. It's
(00:25):
been a bit of a rough day, but yeah, now it's bestI time,
and that's the best medicine. Indeed, I had one at myself and
everything was just like yep, justgotta make it through, Just make it
through, and then okay. Cool. So now in comfy pajamas in the
cool it's a very good, goodtime to be with you. It is,
(00:50):
yes, So how are we goingin the world of you? Back
then? Well, in the lastepisode it ticked over to nineteen ninety m
hmm, and I liked a boycalled Billy after breaking up with Nigel.
(01:12):
That's quite a broad statement to say. It was the early nineties and I
like a boy called Billy because youcould have gone it's been twelve hours in
the nineties, and I've liked aguy called Billy because the transient nature of
your affections. Yes, slightly fickle, nice, yes, and you had
(01:34):
high standards and not everyone. Thisis true. This is true. I
thought somebody might be nice, andthen I got to know them and they
just didn't live up to my expectations. Yes, or that didn't come skating,
yeah either or yeah, same thing. And at the end of it
where we're kicking off today, atthe end of the last episode, I
(01:56):
was at the maths and science summerschool. That's right, yep, nerd
can It was sort of towards theend of January, just before I went
back for the year. Nice.Now, if you can remember, in
one of the last episodes, Iwent shopping and one of the things that
I bought was the nineteen ninety CountdownDiary. Ah, yes, your love
(02:22):
affairs with diaries, I remember,yes, Yeah, So this was more
like a date book than a journal. But for whatever reason, I stopped
writing in my regular diary and Istarted using the Countdown Diary as a daily
(02:42):
journal. So rather than just havinga ruled page book that you'd write the
date in, you had one ofthose books. That were segmented into chunks.
Was it per week or per day? It was a week to spread?
Okay, yes, So I wasabout to think a three hundred and
sixty five page Countdown nineties diary wouldn'thave been in your sort of economic wheelhouse.
(03:07):
Let's just say. Yeah. SoI went back and forth a little
bit between the two. And soso would you say that your long pros
was the ruled book and this Countdownbook was very much just a summary entry
when you remember to do it,absolutely, okay, So it doesn't last
(03:30):
a long long time. But todifferentiate between the two, I'm going to
let you know when I'm in theCountdown diary and when I'm in my regular
diary. Okay, all right.And there's also a little bit of a
gap because these entries are in theCountdown Diary and they start on Sunday,
(03:52):
February the eleventh, nineteen ninety sonot too much of a jump two three
weeks something like that. Okay,So here we go. Today I went
to Mike's church. It was wonderful. It was the closest I felt to
God for ages. So if youcan remember, Mike has a girlfriend called
(04:15):
Kimberly and her dad is a ministeryep, and this was his church.
Also, if you don't feel closeto God in a church, well,
technically it was a school hall becauseit was a very small church. They
didn't have a dedicated building. Sobut isn't isn't that the thing though?
Any building that you do something inis the church absolutely, or the church
(04:40):
is the people who Yeah, therewas a church across from an old place,
a place I used to work manyyears ago. It was literally a
the back part of a storage shedand they were used to get keep their
chairs in the storage shed and theyopen it up and have it outside.
Ohne, It really wasn't because therewas times I reckon it would have rained
(05:04):
on them. But yeah, yeah, yeah, Dad hasn't been very nice
lately. Mum got the wrong paperthis morning. Dad got cross with her
for it. Don't know what thatwas about. We may have we may
have young listeners. So can youexplain what are going gonna sound so old?
(05:28):
Can you explain what a paper is? To a newspaper where people wrote
stories and they got printed on paperand then you had to go down to
the shop and buy one or haveit delivered to your home. Every morning,
What a crazy nation, amazing,and then we'd line the book.
(05:55):
No, once it was printed,that was it. If you had to
take something back, you had towrite a retraction and print it in a
subsequent edition of the newspaper. Thatmy fondest memories of the newspaper is we
used to collect tokens and you wereable to go and get coins from the
news agent for two dollars. SometimesI had a complete set of coins for
(06:18):
I think it was Jurassic part Yes, so yes, in the old days.
Yes, we'll get our walking framesout. That will continue. I
have dancing tomorrow and I get tosee Trevor. Okay, a quick flashback
(06:43):
for all our listeners who where inthe family treats Trevor fit Well, I
haven't mentioned him before, Okay,all right, so this is a new
new character enters these stories. SoI have just met him because of this
dancing thing that I've just started beinginvolved with. I was just about to
(07:06):
ask. It was all skating,skate, skate, and now dancing is
a thing, and they were kindof what type of dancing. It was
very like modern like around the time, like house dancing, house music and
house dancing was popular So what thiswas, and it's actually partially got something
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to do with skating, is thatthere was a group of people in their
late teens early twenties who used toget up on stage at a local nightclub
and do choreographed routines and try andget people jazzed about dancing. Okay,
so they rehearsed at skating rink whenit wasn't open for skating because they knew
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the assistant manager, okay, andthe assistant manager I got this idea of,
hey, maybe we should put togetherthis little troop of what they called
the junior dancers, and obviously notto dance at the nightclub, where these
older kids can teach some stuff tothe younger kids, and we'll get these
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junior dancers to perform at discos andlike open days and stuff like that.
Okay, So you're talking about whenyou'd sign your kid up for a dance
studio and then you have this,oh, we're going to go perform at
a shopping center, when really isit's just a live ad for the dance
studio. Yeah, they weren't technicallya dance studio. They were literally just
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like employed by the nightclub. Andwe couldn't advertise the nightclub obviously. No,
it was just it was just forfun. So it was myself,
Meegan Henderson, Yeah, Naomi,etcetera, the sisters and Shona who had
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come we'd had that big slumber party, and then one of their friends and
her sister, so that's who was. Okay, So was this a you
tried out for it and you wereselected or is it just like you're the
you're the group that turned up andwent, yeah, we'll do that.
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Yeah, we pretty much turned upbecause we found out about it through the
assistant manager at skating so and toldour friends and just turned up and it
was yeah, just us nice.So that's what that's what this is.
And we rehearsed. I think itwas Monday Sunday afternoons and Monday afternoons,
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Sunday mornings, Monday afternoons, somethinglike that. Anyway, because at this
stage I don't think, okay,there was a skating session on Sunday afternoons
at this stage. So yeah,so that's that. It's not the time
to share with you that I wasin a performing arts group when I was
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younger and dance on stage and allthat type of thing. Is it?
No, I think you did mentionthat when I thought you said dancing,
though not singing, I mean singing. I had to sing part of it,
yeah, but it was mainly dancing. But I was very much inside
the troop. I wasn't a star. Is there video of this? Oh
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my, I think there is mighthappen chess, Yeah, player, I
don't. I don't know. Let'ssay one did exist. Has it survived
the ravages of thirty five years.I don't know, all right, I'm
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going to ask your parents. Itwas me singing happy talk from South Pacific.
Oh, I need to see it. But I was also in.
I was also in at school.We did the Rainbow Connection and I was
There was four of us at thefront dressed as muppets, and I was
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animal, so I had to sing. I had to sing the Rainbow Connection,
but as animal. Is that onthe video? No, that's a
whole different thing. I don't knowif that still survives. But I got
in trouble for swinging my legs toomuch. But I was like, I'm
dressed with like a stocking on myhead that's got like wool coming out of
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it, and I have to singthis whole thing. Ah. Yeah,
no, I'm a little nervous,so I'm going to swing the legs.
But yeah, Basically, the teachersaid, muppets don't swing their legs,
and I'm like, muppets don't havelegs, really do they. If they
do, they can't really swing thembecause they're just hanging off their bodies.
That's true. But yeah, no, so I was animal and sang the
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Rainbow connection as animal. Yeah,and I need to see it, okay,
so can you please try and findit? I will. I will
ask the people who should have thatvideo if it still exists and works,
all right, Okay, I reallyhope that it's still a thing. All
right. So then I finished theentry by saying, I'm starting every day
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with Jesus today. Okay. Sothat was a daily devotional book that came
out every month. Yep, Monday, February twelve, nineteen ninety Today was
excellent. I gave the card toTrevor. Given the date, I would
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think this was a Valentine's card.Maybe, well, we're missing the context
of the previous two weeks. Soyou said that with a confidence. I
gave the card like we're supposed toknow what the card he told he told
Rachel that's one of my dancing slashskating friends. The following he's never had
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anyone before, and he's really nervous. I think it means pads In had
a girlfriend, not had in thecarnival sense of the word, or had
as in the cannibal sense of thanks. He asked how old I was and
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when my birthday is his own?That's a bit and I know that's a
bit. I'm sorry, that's alittle bit sketchy, Like I get like,
yeah, how old is she?The birth date so I can verify
that it's legal. That's a littleHis birthdays on September four, that's ten
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days before mine, older or youngerthan you? That right now? It
doesn't say, okay, is hea long term player in our story or
is he another day player. There'sa little bit. Okay, cool,
awesome, just working out how investedto get into a young friend. He
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liked the card. Isn't that excellent? I got his address and phone number.
He has a German shepherd dog.Very important. I think this is
it. Okay, okay, allright, he is nineteen. How old
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are you at this day? I'mthirteen? Okay, And this now it
says he is nineteen twenty. Thisyear, we're back into the situation from
a couple of weeks ago where you'regoing to the drive in with Basic,
your grandpa, and he gets pissedoff that he doesn't get to get handsy
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with you. Okay, all right, all right, well it was a
different time. I don't like it, but for the narrative's sake, breeze
passed. Yes, Okay, Nowit's Wednesday, February fourteen, nineteen ninety
today. Also, kudos to youfor having the guts to give a Valentine's
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Day card to a nineteen year oldwhen you're thirteen. I had a lot
of confidence, obviously misplaced, Ithink, but it was there. You
shot your shot, I did.You never missed a shop. You never
missed a shot because you didn't takeit. That's right. Today is the
best day ever. I started goingyesterday. Yeah, I started going out
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with Trevor. Okay, Well,what happened to old mate? Who was
the in the picture a couple ofdays ago? Which one? Billy?
Well you like someone? Yeah,Billy? What's hap it to? Billy?
Did you lose his number? Iguess? In between the summer school
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and starting actual school and this dancingI've lost interest. Okay, two whole
weeks all right, thank you,thank you, Billy for your service.
Well you'll be in our thoughts always. So Trevor is going to be teaching
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the junior dancers, so excellent.Okay, so he's my boyfriend to sir
with love situation Okay, yeah,I understand, all right. And now
it says back to regular diary okay, okay, And it's Saturday, February
seventeen, nineteen ninety so I skippeda few days, dear diary. Gosh,
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it's been almost a month since Ilast wrote in here, because you
know, separate Diary, I ammadly and profoundly in love with Trevor Skinner.
Yum. Okay do your parents knowthis at the stage or is it?
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Are they aware or they just likeokay, don't know. Tonight,
Kelly and Corey are staying the nightwhile their parents go out. So that's
Kelly, my ex next door neighborand her little brother yep. Okay,
yeah, Kelly and I are goingskating, Megan is getting a lift with
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us, and Trevor is bringing meand Kelly home. Oh okay, so
my parents must have known, probablydidn't know that he was my boyfriend.
No, no, and for goodreason. It's like, yeah, I'll
drive your daughter, a thirteen yearold daughter home, I missed a nineteen
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year old man. Okay, andI've got a friend with me too,
Like yeah, okay, well probablyshe was taking a moonshot. Yeah,
oh dear, we'll probably hone aroundfor a bit first. Oh yeah,
okay, is that what they calledit in the nineties. We're just going
to yes, gee, all sortsof things have happened, but I've got
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nothing to say. So just didTrevor did you ask Trevor out? Or
did Trevor ask you out? Doeshe know that you're his boyfriend? I
can't remember, but we yeah,we definitely he knew. Like we used
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to talk. He used to comedown when we had rehearsal. We'd both
get there early and hang out uptalking stuff before it started. All right,
yeah, okay, and we talkedon the phone. Okay, all
right, okay. I am goingto get very protective of you, so
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I'm always just be like, remember, I'm very good with my agency.
Yes I understand, but also totwo feet and a heart beat with you
I'll give myself a facial now.And me and Keurley were right after skating.
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Ah the old times times when thatwriting, that sentence was was not
a suspense. Stop it, you'reterrible. How long have you known me?
And you say that sentence and expectnot to react, especially thirteen year
old talking about your nineteen year oldboyfriend going out for hooning? Yeah no,
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just drop that sense that was atrap. I know your game.
Skincare Okay, skincare anyway you sayit doesn't sound better? Yeah, okay,
I'm just gonna move on. Yeahtoo later. And this little bit
is written by Kelly. Okay,so guest starring Kelly. Hi, I'm
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Kelly Reeves. Trevor is pretty cute, but a bit of an asshole.
He seems a bit creepy. I'mon team Kelly here. Kelly's got the
got the feelers out going. Okay, all right. I like Justin Birch.
He's real cute, he's pretty rich, he owns a BMW. I
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like him because he's not a bastardto me. He's cute and he's nearly
rich. So that was also Kelly. Kelly. Kelly is a is a
person of simple taste and those whatshe wants, so I'll give her that.
So Justin didn't own to BMW.His parents owned to be in because
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Justin was in. I think theyher and Justin would have been in grade
six. Yes, yeah, nowit's back to me. Good a.
Trevor was a bit of a bastardtonight. He hurt his knee and mightn't
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be going to practice tomorrow. I'llgive him a ring tomorrow morning and invite
him around. He mightn't come over. He's very stubborn. But then again,
he said I'm persistent good night.Okay. So he was an asshole
because he hurt himself. I don'tknow if the tour related, okay,
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yeah, but if I remember correctly, I'm maybe mixing it up with another
night. But he kind of ignoredme a little bit at skating, Okay,
yeah, okay. So, andhonestly, thinking back to those times,
I wonder if did he actually ignoreyou, or you, with your
thirteen year old perception, interpreted somethingas ignoring you when really it was just,
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oh, he had other stuff todo. It could have been that,
But then Kelly thought he was abit of an asshole. So she's
seen something as Kelly also thinks thatanother grade six owns W of BMW.
So as much as I like Kelly, we're not going to go with Kelly
here. And did she say hewas a bit of an asshole because you
said it was a bit of anasshole? Yeah, because she was trying
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to possible yep. Then she saidhe was a bit creepy. No,
she said he was creepy. AndI didn't think he was creepy, of
course not. You're the thirteen yearold dating nineteen year old. He was
very good looking though he had kindof longish blonde surfer hair. Yeah,
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he had quite musky ten brown eyes. He was really good looking. He's
not anymore. And I know thisbecause I've stalked him on Facebook. Okay,
was just remember he was a wholehalf of you older, so yes,
thirteen verse nineteen. He had liveda whole half of a life more
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than you. So when you putit in that way, it's like,
okay, all right, yep,Okay, I'm not casting dispersions on a
good friend, Trevor. But we'llsee how we get. Yes, we'll
find out more about him. OnSunday, February eighteen, nineteen ninety eleven
thirty am, Dear, Diary,time check. Yep, I've wrung Trevor's
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place three times, but no onehas answered. I think he might be
asleep. Oh, he could have. I've been in a car accident and
he might be in hospital with hisparents visiting. Okay, not his parents
might have been an accident and hewas visiting them. I'm getting a little
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bit dramatic here, just touch Yeah, oh god, what if that's true?
No, I won't think about it, okay, Ye, all right,
I understand the sentiment, but it'sjust like when you look back and
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you go, yeah, okay,it was in an accident and his parents
are visiting it of course, perfecthe's a sleeper, having a sleeping or
where he's gone out for breakfast,out blowing the lawn or anything. Yeah.
I dreamt about him last night,Okay. I don't remember everything,
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just that he was near me allthrough the dream. I was hoping that
I'd wake up with him next tome, but I didn't. Okay,
And for Trevor's sake as well,glad that didn't happen. For so many
reasons. Statutory rape. Let's gothere, Kelly and Corey have just left.
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Kelly only likes Justin because he's rich. That is so stupid. Okay,
at least she knows. At leastshe knows what she wants. Yes,
at least they're the same age.I wasn't gonna say it out loud,
but yes, there's lots to say. The baby ring neck doves are
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so cute. I named them afterTrevor and Deborah. I'll try ringing Trevor
again at twelve. Okay, evenif he can't go to practice, he
could come over here and we couldget a video or watch one of the
ones we already have here, orwe could barricade ourselves in the music room
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and talk, or go out forlunch, or read Dolly magazine or listen
to music, or hoon around townor go out to the lookout or anything,
as long as I'm with him.Okay, Okay, right on behalf
of Trevor. I'm saying, liketwo of those three like reading Dolly magazines
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on behalf of Trevor. I hopethat's code. Well, I don't know
most people I knew you liked DollyDoctor, no matter how are they were.
Yeah, and there's a reason whyyou like Dolly Doctor because it had
the stuff in it that you're youshouldn't be reading with a thirteen year old.
It's about John, look at that? What are you reckon about that?
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Do you want to try that?Megan Harrison is turning into a bit
of a Jenny Laundrigan. So Jennyis one of the dancing girls, okay,
and she is like a bit ofa know it all and she's really
bossy. Okay. Jenny invited Meganto her party but didn't invite me.
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No, Surrey, that's not cool. What a big bitch slut dog tut
can't fuck it? Ask? Ican hear you. You are definitive with
your emotional reaction. It's love orit's you. May you die in a
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fire. May I remind you thata week ago was a church and now
I'm at home. May I remindyou that ten minutes ago you wanted a
nineteen year old to come around andhoon around you when you're thirteen. So
everything's off the table. Oh,here we go. Here's an explanation of
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what had happened the night before.Trevor sort of pretended I wasn't there last
night. He kind of ignored me, like he didn't want to be seen
with me. Okay, thirteen minutesuntil I ring him, counting down,
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did anyone answer the phone? Let'ssee. I'm going to go and read
Dolly magazine until it's time to ringup that gorgeous hunk of a guy.
I hope he answers. Maybe hethinks it's me calling and that's why he's
not answering. Don't even think ofthat. This is a fastening insight into
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the mind of a thirteen year oldcatastrophizing. Yes, bye for now.
Wish me luck. I'm going toneed it. Okay, all right,
Later I let it ring until itrang out. I'll try again in half
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an hour. He has to comehome sometime, and even if he doesn't
come home until tonight, at leastI'll get to talk to him, and
I'll invite him around tomorrow night afterpractice. I'll sign off now until I
ring him again. Okay, okay, bit of building a bit of suspense
here. Later I rang him againand he still hasn't answered. I'm getting
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really mad. I'll ring Meagan Hendersonaround two and see if she's going to
practice practically on the verge of tears. It's really not fair. I hope
nothing's happened to him. Bye.Is there more to come on this day
or later? Okay? Cool?I didn't keep it wrong. I didn't
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ring him again before I left.I went to practice and rang him as
soon as I got there. Hewas home. Okay, he's still in
pain. Okay, his knee.He was working this morning, so he
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has a job. Yes, didyou know this? Probably in your catastrophizing.
Did it come across your mind thathe could be working. It's not.
It can't be working. It hasto be an accident. His parents
must be there. Anyway. Weleft practice early because nobody else showed up,
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so it was just you and him, me and Meghann. I'm going
tomorrow though, because Sunday and Monday. Yep, I'm ringing Trevor tonight.
Sometime. He said he'd talk tome. Then. He's so gorgeous.
I'm glad nothing bad happened to him. But he was still mean to me
last night, which is why Ihave to talk to him. Okay,
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yep, he doesn't know. I'mgetting really bored sitting here and writing,
but there's nothing else to do.I hope somebody wrings me up. I
don't know what many people call generally, Yeah, because you know, it's
not like we could text or emailor anything. It was just phone calls,
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true, all letters that would takea while to to reach. That
was never I never got phone callsor letters or anything. I was on
the phone a lot. Okay,Hannah Hillcrest was at skating last night.
That's school friend. She is sopretty. She reckoned Trevor. Was a
real sweetie and she was very happyfor me. She's such a nice girl.
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She sorted everything out with her oldies, and she's not going to sneak
out anymore. Okay, there's abit of a backstory to this. Yeah,
she used to sneak out after herparents went to bed and go driving
with boys and stuff. Right,But her bedroom was kind of on the
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second floor above the garage, andshe used to jump out her window onto
the driveway. And this particular timeshe did that and she felt funny and
she split her lip open, andso of course her parents knew because she
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had to go to hospital and getstitches. Did you try to call her
several times when she did this?And that's when you could have been worried
about being a hospital And it's probablylike one o'clock in the morning or something.
Yeah, I wouldn't stop you.So that's when her parents found out
what. I don't know how shegot back in her house since it was
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on the second store. Bedroom wason the second story, unless that were
one of those families that always lefttheir back door open or something potentially,
or there was an easy way toclimb up. Yeah, but she always
had a little scar on her lipafter that. Okay, so that's right,
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that little bit of backstory, isthere? My chemical romance when you
break your foot from jumping out,when you break your lip, split lip.
If Trevor is going to practice tomorrownight, I might see if he
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could pick me up and take mehome. That would be good, seeing
he come straight from work. Hecould pick me up early, or I
could get Mum to drop me downearly, or I could walk down.
I think I'll do the last thing. Then he could bring me home.
I could invite him in for awhile and he could meet Dad, Cleo
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and the birds. We could talkfor a while. I better not start
dreaming just in case he doesn't come. I'm going to get a drink now
because I'm so thirsty. Clearly byyour diary. You're thirsty, but maybe
not for a drink later. Okay, well same day, Yeah, I
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got a drink red. Watch TVhow to shower, wash my hair,
and play the organ. It's onlytwenty past six. I'm ringing Trevor at
seven thirty pm. That's when Ten'sComedy Hour is on. But I can
easily skip that. I skip.Oh you can't, can't stop it?
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Comedy Company Classic, I know,I know Trevor's more important. Oh be
bold statements saying that to me.I mean, I skipped church this morning,
didn't I? Well, yeah youdid. But you're also trying to
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phone your hook up. So youstarted every morning with Jesus, except this
morning when you were trying to findout where the mangled corpse of your nineteen
year old boyfriend was. Yep.Anyway, it's worth it to talk to
Trevor. Okay, I have toask him if he's coming to the overnight
skate another one. Okay, we'vehad a bit of a s sketchy situation
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with these type of things. Sointeresting, it's going to be so cool,
even better if Trevor will be there. I'm going to stay up all
night again. I'll skate more.This time Rachel Kendall is coming. Her
mom doesn't know it. She's tellingher mum she's staying at her friends,
but instead she and her friend willbe at the overnight skate. Scandalous,
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Yes, so scandalous obviously, myfriends starting to get into that lie to
your parents to sneak out and goplaces you're not really supposed to be stage.
Yeah see, but you you arenot that you're just dating nineteen year
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old and telling my parents apparently,uh or telling them something that's true,
maybe not the whole truth. Lieby omission. This is you could have
a don't stand so close to mesituation where they think that Trevor's you're instructor,
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but don't know that you want aninstruction on it maybe Okay. For
Tea, where you have warm carwas warm and dry. Car was warm
and dry. I don't even rememberwhat type of car he hard. I
think it was yellow. I don'tknow. Okay. For Tea, we
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are having these lamb strips that havebeen rolled with seasoning on them. Yummy.
Okay, that's remember back then whenthat was fancy seasoning. Yeah.
Rolled. We were just talking aboutwhat to do with leftovers. Just before
we started and it was like,well, you know, we do this
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and you put that on it andthat bit of cheese and yeah, well
usually it would be you know,just some lamb chops or something, probably
four quarter chops. Yeah, soif you had you know, see,
I'd be souving them now and notjust chucking them in the electric fry.
Pin. I am that basic bitwho goes too far with food. So
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yeah, I appreciate it. Idon't know, but still I have Look,
let's just say I was looking atbuying a new barbecue the other week
and one of the thoughts was canI put it in the car and drive
it up to Bestie's house and cookthem? And what number is one of
the considerations? Sorry, what numberbarbecue will this be? Look, I'm
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not going to say double figures,but I'm not not going to say double
figures. But a lot of mybarbecues are in other places that other people
use. That makes all the difference. Look, just because my parents have
five of my barbecues and pizza oven, I was looking. I was looking
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at a Brazilian barbecue. Laura,It's all very I'll show you later.
Yes, I have to ask missIrish tomorrow if she knows Trevor, miss
Irish is question, she's my Englishteacher. Yes, Oh that's even better.
You couldn't have answered that question better, missus. Irish was your English
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teacher. She used to teach atHill High and that's where he went.
Okay, not that they're the sameage? Are we just breezing over the
top? That was English was taughtby Irish? Ah? Good, thank
you good. I wonder if Trevorstill wants to go out with me.
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I hope so if he doesn't,I'll probably go into one of those deep
depression stages where I think I haveto talk to him. You know what
I mean? Are you talking?Maintain the relationship or go out with you?
As in, like, still wantsto be my boyfriend? Okay?
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Cool? Right, anyway, I'vegot to pack my things for school and
eat dinner or right after. Okay, that's very long entries, isn't it?
Very much? Later? I rungstill the same still the same day.
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Okay, I've rung Trevor a coupleof times, but the phone's been
engaged. See kids, Back inthe day, we used to and if
other people were on that same phone, there was no voicemail or if you
had voicemail was fancy because it costsa lot of money. Well, it
costs like five bucks a month,but that was very expensive. Extra to
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get a call way that wasn't evenlike answering service that was ca Yeah,
yeah, yeah, you had topay for that, kids. Yeah,
you had to pay for like basicallythe rental of your phone line, and
then for each individual call that youmade on top of that, and then
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for your added features like call waiting, and if you want an answering service,
you got charge when you call theanswering service to get your messages,
it's expense. And he used topick up used to pick up your faint.
We didn't have call or ID,but we had star ten hash.
Were you typing star ten hash?And it dulled people back? Yeah?
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I forgot about that. There yougo. This has been odd moments with
us Nanny and Gramps rang. Crampshas been feeding a cat. It comes
to his house for breakfast and dinner. When it's finished, it goes next
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door to missus Gunnison's for more.Cat's got a downcap. Nanny says,
it's beautiful and very affectionate. Ofcourse you're feeding it twice a day.
I loved missus Gunnison as well asbeing my grand parents neighbor. She ran
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like the corner store type thing downthe street in their town, and she
always asked about us. And shewas old too, she was on her
own, and whenever we visited,she'd keep looking out the door until she'd
see us and she'd wave and she'dgo, hello, kids, how are
we going. It's good to seeyou, and she'd make sure we came
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up to the shop, and thenshe'd tell us to go pick an ice
block out of the freezer for free. So you were her pseudo visiting green
kit. Yeah, okay, Iloved missus Gunnison. I'll just tidy my
room now and then try ringing Trevoragain. Still has it picked up later?
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This whole episode could have just beenTrevor's mum answered, Oh, okay,
she's getting him to ring me backbecause he was at a friend's house.
I hope he doesn't think it's toolate to ring if he gets home
at about eleven thirty pm, Isit too late for him to call?
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If he gets home at eleven thirtypm, might not be too late for
him, but it'd be too latefor my mum, considering it's a school
not yeah, and knowing your momvery much, so his mum is Russian
and has such a groovy accent?Was she in a hurry? Sorry,
Trevor, Why it's a it's ait's a a what do they call it?
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A Pavlovian response? For me?There are certain you know this,
there are certain phrases you say whereI have no control, and it's just
like, so, if you tellme someone's Russian, I'm going why Then
that's such a joke. I know. I don't apologize for it. Trevor
won't tell me his Russian names.So Trevor was like the English version of
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a Russian name, and he hada Russian middle name, but his dad
was Australian, so hence his surnamewas Skinner. Yeah, okay, I
don't think I ever found out either, all right, Maybe it's a state
secret. Maybe he was born inthe same hospital as me, except he
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was six years and ten days oldwhen I was born. But age doesn't
make a difference in most cases,I mean, except statutory rate cases.
They make a lot of difference.I mean, it didn't work with Damien
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or Darren, but it did withTom and now Trevor and you have the
word work is doing a lot ofhaving lifting in the situation because Tom,
that's Tom Watts. Yes, don'tremember going out with him. I was
like, I don't think he'd gowith me because I was twelve when he
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was seventeen, and I definitely didn'twrite about going out with him. But
in Tom's defense, I would liketo remind you that you've had several relationships
with people who didn't know there werea relationship with you. Well, I
wanted to be in a relationship withthem. No, I remember you were.
You were basically girlfriend to people whodidn't know that they were supposed to
(45:45):
be your boyfriend. Who. Oh, there was that one dude who is
He kept going on about like fora good couple of weeks, so you
were like, oh, he's sogreat and he's under it and you hadn't
even there was a letter that nevergot sent to him and all that stuff.
Oh that was Joseph. Yeah,you had. You had. You
(46:07):
had an involved long distance relationship withthe dude who never got your letter and
didn't know who it was. Soit's like you even got angry at him
and he didn't even know. ButI didn't say I was his girlfriend.
I just had the hots roam somethingchronic. Yeah, but how many times
did you used to write in hisdiary I love you and it was the
(46:28):
guy you reade all the heaps andnames on. Yeah, that was just
you know, I still didn't thinkI was, but they probably weren't aware
of the extent of my That's whatI'm getting at, is it you were
in a very much relationship with them, but they they have no idea,
(46:49):
No, yes, consent to sexypeople. Yeahs. So his age appropriations.
The best thing about Trevor is thathe acts his age and he treats
me his age like it's not asthough I was thirteen. Oh that's a
dangerous that's a dangerous He treats mehis age. So he's treating a thirteen
(47:15):
year old like she's nineteen. Let'sjust put up the flashing lights now and
call Chris Hansen. That's exactly whatI say. Like, it's not as
though I was thirteen going on fourteen. You'd think i'd be nineteen going on
twenty like him. I think it'sI think it's thirteen going on something.
That is nineteen. I think that'swhat he's after. Late, Okay,
(47:45):
we're still going here. I'm ridingin the kitchen now, drinking coffee.
It's only four past nine. Don'tknow why I'm drinking. Are you drinking
coffee so you stay awake for whenhe calls? Probably? Am? I
don't say that, but I reckonso okay, I can't stand being in
(48:06):
my room any longer. It's makingme depressed. I'm really really anxious sitting
here waiting for Trevor to call.I'm less depressed than when I'm in my
beddream But the coffee doesn't help mefeeling anxious. Duh, No, it
doesn't. Caffeine and a thirteen yearold is waiting on the boyfriend to call.
(48:28):
Yeah, no, I wouldn't suspectit would. It does keep me
awake, though, very much.So. Yes, whenever I'm in my
bedroom I think of Trevor. Iwonder why ahmah, that's rude. Yes,
I'm uncomfortable you reading it out.Sorry, it's about to get a
(48:52):
bit worse. Okay, all right, I wonder if Trevor only wants me
for a fuck. Okay, allright, I'll have to question him about
that. Just casually, like I'lljust say, listen, there's something I've
(49:15):
wanted to ask you. How canI say this? Well? Are you
going to bow me like an archaeologistin a museum? A little bit more
subtle than that. Okay, areyou a carpenter? And are you going
to lay me? I? Areyou? Sorry? No? And are
(49:37):
you an upholsterer? Are you goingto lay me? Are you a carpenter?
Are you going to naw me?Okay, all right, I'm done.
Well, you're not the kind ofguy who'd who take advantage? No,
hang on, who just go outwith a girl for the three f's?
(49:59):
Are you okay? The three fsare? Yes, fine, I'm
everyone. I'm just saying I'm uncomfortablein this situation. But hearing my best
(50:20):
you describe thirteen year old bestie fantasizingabout a nineteen year old dude, just
going to point out I'm uncomfortable andI am just a passive participant in this
the three I'm not acting. Thethree f's are just something that people used
to talk about at school. Howlike boys who use girls would be right,
we're talking about it now, opeople in their forties. They're talking
(50:45):
about thirteen year old girls, threef's are fine, fuck and forget.
Okay, all right, So ifboys only wanted one thing, we'd say
they're just they just want the threef's. In fairness to boys, you're
over complicating the situation. It's onlyone. I mean, not to defend
(51:08):
a nineteen year old who's trying totag a thirteen year old thing, but
I don't think the if they hada choice of putting effort in the effort
the start and the effort the backisn't top priority. If they could get
the middle F without putting effort intothe front or the back, it would
be fine. I think you're overestimatingthe keenness of these young dudes for the
(51:31):
other two f's, because find itwould just be whoever comes my way.
Yes, And honestly, it's likeif they could stand still and it came
to them even better what and ifit left afterwards a complicated even further,
because then I say the five fs, oh five, Yes, if you
(52:00):
drop the word fallatio, now,I'm no. One thousand leaders of ice
cream fine finger. Yes, okay, I'll pay that. That's very uncomfortable
for me to say, but I'llpay that. Fuck Okay, fertilize and
forget. That's a hard core okay, all right, okay, and again
(52:24):
nineteen year old dudes not sticking upfor them. But of that, you
could count out three of the fivef's because I don't think the fourth F
F. Sorry, that's hard tosay. I do not think the fourth
F is something that a nineteen yearold dude is interested in, not intentionally
(52:45):
anyway, Okay, I appreciate that, but fing, fing, then fing,
and then fing then fing a thirteenyear old girl, So the thirteen
year old your gold is fertilized.Yeah, no, I'm going to stick
up a little bit for Trevory hereand go, yeah, that's not on
(53:05):
his agenda, don't that? Probablynot? No, And I think I
just made up the five f's becausethen I go, haha, that's so
hilarious and funny and crazy and laughableand just plain stupid and wrong. No
guy wants to tag a girl andget it pregnant. It's not a category
or on Tinder, is it.I don't know. I thought you're going
(53:28):
to, oh, you're going tosay it's not a category on Jeopardy.
It's like, what does Jeopardy haveto do with this? Okay, you've
just come up with a five Fthings that include fertilized. As a thirteen
year old girl, you can't reallydrop the criticisms on me here. It's
not my acronyms. So true,and I actually, what is it that
(53:51):
I learned this the other day thatthe difference between an initialism and an anagram.
So the ABC or the BBC isan initialism because you pronounce each of
the initials has letters. It's ABCBBC, where NASA isn't an as a.
(54:14):
Nasa is its word, and that'sthe acronym. That's really interesting.
Abc is initialism and NASA is anachronism. Yeah, that's cool. I
don't know why I brought that up, but it's been sitting in the back
of my brain going you're going toget to tell this and seem really smart
to someone, and you're interested smarterthan the five fs. Anyway, I'll
(54:42):
give you props creativity. If Iam a slightly different disappointed that you didn't
go the six f's, I probablydidn't know the falatio. Well, your
new finger and your new fertilizer,so fertilizing would have known a different term
for filatio, didn't didn't start withf Okay, yeah, but I'm saying
(55:10):
if you had dropped six f's,I would have gone, yeah, okay,
fair play, fair play. Whatthe question is what's the progression though?
So is it second f first?I think they're meant to be in
order? Okay? All right,Well it's pretty hard to do four for
four three, yes, unless youunless your two had some magical powers,
(55:35):
unless you're the type of person whowould write into Dolly magazine and say,
can I get pregnant from sitting inspa? How is Babbie form get pregnant?
I'm getting very tired. I mightgo to bed. I'll just get
Mum to wake me up when thephone rings, because I really have to
(55:59):
talk to Trevor. I love Trevor. Okay, yes, I were back
into this way of finishing it.I love Trevor. Okay, all right,
And it's finally that's finally the endof that entry. There's no more
laders, okay, okay, allright, So now we're on to Monday,
February nineteenth, nineteen ninety Dear Diary. I'll just have to write quickly
(56:24):
because I'm about to go to dancing. I hope Trevor's there, I might
have a cigarette with him. Okay, this is a new development. I
remember I've dabbled in it. Hi. Yeah, so I told Hannah I
was still a virgin. She thoughtI was all along. She is so
(56:45):
nice. Okay, hang on,So you told someone that you were a
virgin and they believed you. Butthe way you phrase that just then was
like you weren't. I think Imay have alluded to like because she wasn't.
I think I might. I believe, yeah, that I wasn't.
(57:05):
And then I told her that Iwas. Okay, I understand. I've
got to go now. I'll writesome more later later. Trevor wasn't it
dancing? Rachel and I went upto the phone booth outside the pub,
but there were these drunks there,so we rang Trevor from dancing. And
(57:30):
his mum hadn't seen him since hewent to his friend's place the other night.
I'm writing him a letter now,Okay, Okay, that's a bit
serious. It's probably just ships passingin the night. He probably got home
after she went to bed, andthen she went to work in the morning
(57:51):
while he was still asleep, andwhatever. Okay. Tuesday, February twenty
nineteen. Dear Diary. I've beenringing Trevor for the last fifteen minutes,
but it's been engaged, hopefully.Probably it's Trevor talking to someone. Hmm.
(58:14):
I gave Hannah a carefree tampon todayand she gave me a carefree pantywoner.
It's swapping menstrual products for any particularreason, or it's just like something
you did, I think because weused different brands. Okay, so consumer
(58:36):
testing, Yeah, yeah, Okay, She's bringing me a Med's tampon tomorrow
and a flour tramp on another day. Okay, all right. During English,
all we talked about was rags.Okay, I understand that. Reference
Hannah wears pads to bed and aroundthe house. That was a big thing
(59:01):
because like pads were seen as reallyreally daggy. Yes, even though you
were supposed to wear them overnight,because all the little leaflets and the tampon
boxes say not to leave them infor a certain amount of time or you
increase your risk of toxic shock syndrome. So she's doing the right thing.
(59:22):
And I'm shocked that she actually wearspads to bed. Not pads, Okay,
I should wear them to bed.But I just can't. They are
so uncomfortable. So these were thedays where you're aware that you should get
but these were the days when padsresembled small mattresses. You didn't get all
(59:45):
the ultra thin, wayfer thin onesthat you can get nowadays, and no
wings. Yeah. Yeah, sothey had all kinds of issues. I
read Hannah's diary because she let meinteresting. She brought it to school.
(01:00:08):
She's had one fuck this year andthat was with Mark Barrett. Okay,
may remind you she's thirteen. Yeah. Yeah, that's the uncomfortableness that I'm
expressing. So yes, she saidthat compared to the rest of his body,
(01:00:28):
his dick was a toothpick, andhe walked around the house naked to
find a condom. Okay, allright, bit of body confidence from Mark.
There a bit of body shaving forher. Yeah, she nicks a
(01:00:49):
lot of stuff, but she's stoppingas in shop lit. Yeah, yeah,
well, not nicking as much.She agrees that she agrees that it's
much more enjoyable to buy something withyour own money. We are turning into
really good friends. Okay, Okay, I've been ringing Trevor since I've been
(01:01:16):
riding but it's still engaged. Itold Mama Lie and said I was ringing
Hannah about our history project. Sorry, Hannah, mate, but you can
use me for an excuse whenever youwant. Well, this returns us to
an earlier question about your parents knowing. Yes, so maybe they were wondering
(01:01:40):
why I was ringing my dancing teacher. In fairness to your parents, they
probably knew you're bringing your dancing teacher. They were probably wondering why you were
continuously re dialing your your dance teacheruntil they picked up, probably and organizing
(01:02:05):
to get phone calls at like ninethirty at night from your dance teacher.
Yeah. I just got to learnthese steps. Yep, that important.
I got a letter from Samantha Hilltoday. That's one of my Cambridge friends.
She's still going with Ross. I'llhave to send everybody some photos of
(01:02:28):
me. Hey, a really niceone. I'll get somebody to take one
of me and Trevor. Hey,a nice one of us hugging. Oh
okay, I have aerobics tomorrow.That's for school sports. Yeah, school
sport, okay. Deb Brah isbringing her plastic pants. So these weren't
(01:02:52):
actual plastic. They were kind ofyou know the parachute material track pants.
Yeah, she called them are plasticpants. I don't know what. Late
late eighties, early nineties. Yeah, workout, yeah, yep. Okay,
Speaking of Debra, she is askingDanny zu Zuccoli out soon. I
(01:03:14):
hope he says yes to her.Okay. So he's just another guy in
our grade, all right. Soyeah they come and go. So yeah,
okay, all right, do Ineed Do I need to remember him?
No? Okay? Cool. Imean his name will pop up every
(01:03:34):
now and then in the like throughoutthe school years, but he's not a
main character. He's a yeah,it's got a bit background character. We
get our school ID cards on Thursday. I hope mine looks all right.
Nice. So this was the firstyear that our school had bought in photo
id's, and they were mostly forborrowing books out of the library because that's
(01:03:59):
when they which to barcode scanning forthe library. I just rang Trevor.
His mom must like me now,she must know I'm faithful to my friends.
Anyway, she thought Trevor was asleep, and he was, but thank
goodness, he was home. Thatis a bit of good news to report
to Hannah tomorrow. I'll try ringinghim again tomorrow night. Hmm, Okay,
(01:04:30):
was he really asleep? M Youknow, it's a hard thing for
me to say, but it's like, are you being a little bit too
much? I had a big talkwith Mike this afternoon about Trevor. Mike
(01:04:54):
thinks that Trevor is just one ofthe big world of users. Okay,
all right, but that's his opinion. He doesn't know Trevor as well as
I do. Everyone is worried aboutme. They're all worried that Trevor will
hurt me bad, and Mike reckonsthat him hurting me will ruin my life
(01:05:15):
forever. But Trevor will not hurtme. Never in his whole life would
he do that to me. Althoughyou have developed the three into five f's
to try to find the relationship,Yes, well he is a saint.
(01:05:35):
I'm wondering if Yeah, so you'rewondering if this dude is not only going
to three f you, he's goingto five f you. And yeah,
but no, he's cool. It'scool. Everybody else thinks he's not,
but I know him. They don't. Yeah, Okay, so is Trevor
(01:05:57):
going to hurt me? Yes?He is? He yes, because he's
nineteen and you're thirteen, and youknow what, I'll give him a smaller
amount of grace. He's going tohurt you, but there's a chance that
he hurts you and he doesn't evenknow he's hurts you because you're thirteen.
And if the wind changes you true, well, we're going to have to
(01:06:24):
wait till next episode to find out. All right, well, I'm invested.
Now I've got to see what happensto young Trevor. How long does
Trevor last in our story? Alittle bit longer? Okay, that's right,
be a few more entries about him. Excellent? Okay, cool?
All right, well, love toprocess to a lot of things to cognitively
(01:06:47):
deal with and put aside the factthat it's a nineteen year old and a
thirteen year old. But it's whatwe have to do. Going back in
the diary so far, so thankyou, Besty for continuing to take me
on this interesting Jim, You're welcometell everyone about Instagram before we get out
of here. At Diary of myBestie. It's cool follow us getting some
(01:07:12):
more interactions and stuff there. Yeah, we have actually a few faithful followers
now. Excellent, yes, shoutout to have friends of the pod.
Yes, we do. Shout outto Teresa and around the way, dork
nice and I just had a mindblank. All write them down for next
(01:07:38):
time? Yeah, we don't wantto. We don't. Look, we
don't have that much to list themoff multiple episodes, so we'll spread them
out over a couple. Yeah,we'll do that. But yeah, I
very much appreciate. I'm having heapsof fun over there on Instagram with them.
Well, thank you, Besty.I hope you have a good night
and I can't wait to hear aboutthe next creepy adventure is you and Trevor
(01:08:03):
and we'll see everyone later. Thanksbestie, thank you, good bye bye.
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