Love it!!

Of course, there's no need to go back because I'm still there (in my mind). Highlights: Over-tying my shoes into twenty impossible knots; getting a gold star on the leaderboard for reciting my name, phone, address, AND zip code (overachieving nerdlet); my sweaty post-recess face getting stuck to the plastic nap mat; getting crushed behind the rolling piano on purpose by Shauna and Kayla (my future best friends); deciding that God is a little boy who looks a lot like me, but he comes from Israel and has a better tan; correlating Spot is the dog and Jane is the girl and they both know how to run better than I do; being terrified because Dina's mother had cancer and they took out her eye and that can happen to anyone—even Dina's mother.

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