I’m so glad that it’s gonna be a boy. When they’re all grown up, we can always push them in a certain direction, if you catch my drift,” Jamie...winked at me.“Incest?” I whispered back.“Hell, yes!” Jamie told me under her breath.“We can pass on our family values, not Danielle’s or Betsy’s. A child is a blank canvas. I’m tired of society indoctrinating them to be mononormative, heteronormative, etc. Those are society’s old-fashioned, traditional values, not ours, are they?” I smiled as we held. -jen-----------------------------------------------------------13Jan09*Fashion Or Survival*My amazing best buddies made sure I got some long skirts well in advance. As in, August. "You'll need them," said they. "You've got to be kidding me," said I. "It's damn hot outside," said I. "You'll see," said they.Now I see, and I am supremely grateful once again for the timeless girl wisdom and attention to girl details ( *my* girl details) with which they have guided me. Never mind that we look like. Judging from his demeanor at the auditions, she was sure he was more special than even he knew. When he played her original composition, somehow he put more life and power into it than she ever could have and that was on the first sight reading. From that moment, she was hoping he was as good a person as he was a musician because she was smitten.When he asked her out to dinner, she nearly jumped at it immediately but she'd been brought up to be cautious in her choice of friends and even more. This was sure one day full of surprises. A cheerleader of all things. Boy, if I were a cheerleader, I'd be routing for the *other* team and Tom would get a pom-pom right in his face!It was getting hard to imagine how we were going to stay friends in school, our interests were so different. I never could stand jocks, especially the ones like Tom who represented everything I'd come to despise in the breed.Jenny was busy braiding my hair as promised, stopping now and then to kiss the top of my.