inconstant heart
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Post by inconstant heart on Apr 19, 2008 9:49:03 GMT -5
Thanks, greer! Oh, vice principal, wenonah4th. Sorry, we use deputy principal at my school. I'd forgotten the books use a different term
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Post by bscfan81 on Apr 23, 2008 8:25:59 GMT -5
I just re-read the FF book "Graduation Day" and had to laugh at Stacey thinking she couldn't graduate all because of "Ribsy." That's the kind of thing that could have totally happened to me.
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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 23, 2008 14:16:16 GMT -5
^Explain, please?
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Apr 23, 2008 20:11:46 GMT -5
^Stacey got a notice saying that she had a copy of Ribsy by Beverly Cleary way overdue from the SMS library. She didn't even remember checking it out, and figured she borrowed it a long time ago when she was sad and wanted to read something comforting. She had no idea where it was and thought she must have lost it in one of her moves to or from New York. And she was afraid they wouldn't let her graduate eighth grade because she couldn't return the book. She freaks out about this for, like, a couple of weeks, and then she realizes that, duh, she can just buy a replacement copy of Ribsy and give it to the school library.
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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 23, 2008 21:18:10 GMT -5
Oh, I see. That's pretty funny.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2008 20:52:08 GMT -5
Oh, Stacey.....I swear she'd turn up pregnant at 16...
I think that describing her as "sophisticated" is waay too overused.
Sometimes I forget that she has diabetes. I know it, but I guess it's not as big of a burden now-a-days than it was back then.
The whole - move to Stoneybrook, move to New York, move back to Stoneybrook - kind of bugged me.
I also didn't like that her parents got divorced. The BSC series had enough separated parents already.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 10, 2008 20:07:31 GMT -5
There was a story in my local paper this past spring about a young teenage girl who died of diabetes. She hadn't been to a doctor since she was very young. When she got really sick before she died, her parents decided to "pray" for her healing instead of getting medical help. Yeah, there's going to be some criminal charges coming for those parents of the century.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2008 10:33:18 GMT -5
There was a story in my local paper this past spring about a young teenage girl who died of diabetes. She hadn't been to a doctor since she was very young. When she got really sick before she died, her parents decided to "pray" for her healing instead of getting medical help. Yeah, there's going to be some criminal charges coming for those parents of the century. omg, are you serious? i can see that the parents wanted to pray for their daughter, but she needed medical help, too!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2008 19:38:43 GMT -5
wasn't Stacey usually the one who said things along the lines of "I'm one of the coolest girls in our grade...I don't mean to sound conceited, but it's the truth"? it was either her or Claudia. that always cracks me up.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Jul 23, 2008 0:11:03 GMT -5
^ I'm not sure but I think so. I also remember Jessi saying saying the same thing but about her dancing skills.
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Post by lionessblack on Jul 25, 2008 23:53:15 GMT -5
As far as Stacey's parents getting divorced, it was the only separation to happen DURING the series. We got a glimpse of what it was like for Dawn in SS#11, but I think it was interesting to have books of Stacey's parents being together and then have them divorce mid-series. I think that's something that set the McGill's divorce apart from the other split families.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jul 26, 2008 0:20:26 GMT -5
I've always felt the same way. Kristy's, Dawn's, and Stacey's families represent different stages of divorce. Kristy's parents are long divorced, she's accustomed to it, and her dad is out of the picture. When we meet Dawn, she's adjusting to her parents' recent divorce and the separation from her father. Then with Stacey, we know her parents before the divorce and then see all the ugliness during and after. There's a girl for all the readers with divorced parents to relate to.
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Jul 26, 2008 0:58:37 GMT -5
Except for those of us who's parents should be divorced but refuse because god wants families to be together. Even if it means constant fighting, passive aggressive behavior, and leaving their children with their grandparents for years while they "work on their marriage and see what's out in the world". .. but I have arrested develpment to relate to, so, there's that.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jul 26, 2008 2:11:06 GMT -5
And because if they got divorced, then they'd be alone and have no one to watch t.v. with. Plus, it would be so embarrassing, Omigawd!
Yeah, there wasn't exactly a baby-sitter for us.
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Post by candykane on Aug 28, 2008 20:06:34 GMT -5
My two cents on Stacey: I've always liked her. When I was a kid, I saw her as "the cool one," probably because the books said that over and over again. When I was a little older, I was able to relate to Stacey's wanting to expand her circle of friends, and having her current group of friends unhappy about it. I used to think it was awesome that Stacey was allowed to wander NYC by herself. Now, not so much. My niece is about to turn 13 and no way would she be allowed to do that. Even in the small town where she does live, she isn't allowed to ride her bike into town by herself, and it's a place where most people all know each other - like Stoneybrook, I guess Stacey's being allowed to do all that stuff alone is just another example of how the BSC gave me unrealistic expectations for what my own life was supposed to be like once I hit 13. Anyway, Stacey will always be my favorite.
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