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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Feb 9, 2011 2:39:29 GMT -5
I don't remember liking or disliking her as a kid. She was one of the sitters besides Mary Anne, and I guess no one else really mattered. Now, she's super annoying to me. She's such a teen... which I guess is what makes her books fun to read. I like when the girls are typical kids and not perfect.... they're more entertaining.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 15, 2011 18:29:41 GMT -5
When did she date Pete? I'm reading Stacey and her 500 Boyfriends right now and have no recollection of them ever being together. Or ever really being friends for that matter. I remember she tried to hook him up with Laine.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 15, 2011 18:42:11 GMT -5
Didn't he ask her to a dance in The Truth About Stacey? She and Claudia sat at the "cool kids" table at lunch - Dorianne, Emily, Howie, etc. - so they were friends.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 16, 2011 17:31:04 GMT -5
Pete was part of the "cool" lunch crew, I remember that. They never actually boyfriend/girlfriend dated, though, right? Stacey made it seem like she dumped him or something.
Another thing from the Boyfriend Trap book. Stacey said that since she was an only child, she thought she and Claudia had been as close as sisters. (At least sometimes, she did add that part, lol.) That seems like quite the hyperbole to me. Since she also referred to Charlotte as her "almost sister", it got me thinking that maybe being an only child warped her view on what having a sibling was like. This could go for Mary Anne too. They weren't "trained" to deal with siblings the way people who grow up having them do. Could this be why Stacey (IMO) took people for granted and Mary Anne had a death grip on Dawn? Because they thought that was how "normal" sisters acted?
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 16, 2011 21:56:33 GMT -5
^Interesting point. I think Stacey and MA to some extent took people for granted. MA most assuredly "had a death grip on Dawn." I always hated how Charlotte was Stacey's "almost sister" yet it seemed to me, anyway, that 99% of the time their interactions were only when Stacey baby-sat. But then to be fair, that was all we were "shown." I wish Stacey had been a better (non) almost sister. Either you think of someone as a sister or you don't. The constant "almost" always bugged me because that translated into (as you sort of said SM), "when convenient for Stacey." MA and Dawn? I'll never "get" their relationship and frankly don't want to! I was/am an only child so can't comment on experience with a sibling. I did look toward "mom-aged" women in my life growing up as "like mother's." I was super blessed to have my Grandma as "mom" (no like or almost), I wasn't lucky enough to have a "mom" closer in age to what most of my friends did. That's definitely a reason why I wish MA/Sharon and MA/Elizabeth Brewer had been better developed.
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Post by supprazz on Aug 18, 2011 2:36:18 GMT -5
Maybe it has to do with the fact that both Mary Anne and Stacey were the only children for the first 13 years of their lives and didn't have a sibling. Mary Anne had no one till Dawn and no mother figure. Stacey had unstable friends and was an only child, so 'using someone to benefit them' was not a conscious move on either girl's part.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Nov 22, 2011 20:30:37 GMT -5
Stacey is definitely the sitter who screams "f*g-hag" to me the most. And as a dude-who-likes-dudes, I'm surprised I didn't like her the most right from the beginning. She's smart, funny, and down-to-earth. At the same time, she can be selfish, boy-crazy, and a bit judgmental. But she has a good heart and is a good babysitter.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2012 11:58:35 GMT -5
I can relate a lot to Stacey because of her diabetes. I have type 1 diabetes (since I was 7 years old). I think a big part of the change in AMM's attitude/facts about diabetes, is that AMM herself became more educated as she wrote the series and realize that diabetics CAN eat cheese and pizza and all kinds of other things. Hell, we can even sweets, as long as we take enough insulin. Today if the books were being written, Stacey would no doubt have an insulin pump which would give her a lot more freedom in her lifestyle and eating habits (although she might still land in the hospital if her pump failed- that happened to me a few months ago :/). Anyway, AMM had a lot of facts wrong, but at least she tried. There aren't many other characters in TV and fiction that have diabetes that us kids with type 1 could relate to.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 10, 2012 19:21:23 GMT -5
^ About the pizza topic that you brought up. I remember Stacey not eating pizza in the first few books but then eating it later on (especially just cheese pizza).
I can understand how you related with Stacey with the diabetes thing. I don't have it, but I think it would be nice to read a character who does have the same thing you're going through. My half-sister has Type 1 diabetes also, and has since she was born basically. We're not close and I barely see her (I am 12 year older than her or something like that). I think for her it might have been a bit easier, seeing as she was born with it and doesn't know any different.
I'm glad that you can relate to her. I really like Stacey, too. She's one of my favourites and I think we would make really good friends in reality (haha).
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 18, 2012 20:30:43 GMT -5
From Graduation Day, Stacey sums up 13 year olds across the universe.I wish this had been the letter she had chosen to mail to herself. ;D
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Post by oldhickory on Jan 21, 2012 0:09:21 GMT -5
^ i don't have graduation day, so could you explain what she meant?
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 21, 2012 10:24:05 GMT -5
^ What happened is she recieved a letter from SMS telling her that she can't graduate because she never returned the book Ribsy.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 21, 2012 14:26:32 GMT -5
Oldhickory, one of the main plots of Graduation Day was that all of the 8th graders were supposed to write letters to themselves to be mailed back to them when they were graduating from high school. For reasons I didn't comprehend, everyone took it extremely seriously and wrote multiple drafts. They also got notice that they wouldn't graduate if they had outstanding library books, which Stacey found out she did (Ribsy, which she was rather embarrassed by). The "I'm an idiot" letter was just Stacey freaking out that she wouldn't be allowed to walk the stage. I just thought it was funny, but there's no real heavy meaning behind it.
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Post by oldhickory on Jan 22, 2012 3:38:26 GMT -5
^ thanks. it's actually kind of funny, because i almost didn't walk at my high school graduation for the exact same reason. i turned it in the day of and got to walk :]
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 26, 2012 12:39:13 GMT -5
I always imagine that Stacey would have a TON of gay friends in high-school, university (and as an adult).
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