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Post by bsc4ever on Jul 14, 2010 13:15:47 GMT -5
grow up thinking that Stoneybrook was a real place? My family went on a trip across the country when I was just out of 6th grade. When we got to Connecticut, I said that I wanted to at lease drive through Stoneybrook. NO ONE knew what I was talking about. I poured over the map. I couldn't find it on the map, but somehow that didn't clue me in as to the fact that it wasn't a real place. I just assumed it was really small and not included.
I'm not sure when I realized it wasn't a real place, but I was so bummed!!!
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Post by lilafowler on Jul 14, 2010 14:43:11 GMT -5
IIRC, the "About the Author" page in the new cover books specifically states Stoneybrook is made up (though I have no idea how they worked that into a short bio of Ann).
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Post by oldhickory on Jul 14, 2010 14:49:07 GMT -5
^ because they are stupid and can't think of anything else to say about her. i do remember reading that in the back of the books though, so i always knew stoneybrook was made up, but i still wanted to visit stamford because i knew that was real. is there a washington mall actually in stamford?
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 14, 2010 16:18:05 GMT -5
I thought/hoped that Stoneybrook was real myself. Good question, old hickory! If there is, "we" should all meet up there one day as part of a BSC get together. It would be cool to see and be in as many "real" places that the girls visited, especially ones "close" to Stoneybrook.
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Post by celaeno on Jul 14, 2010 17:03:21 GMT -5
I googled, and I see no Washington Mall in CT.  However I am all for a BSC get together in Stamford! |
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Post by bsc4ever on Jul 14, 2010 17:40:48 GMT -5
Too bad they didn't have the new book information in the old books. They made no mention of that in the OG books. I am also bummed to find that there is no Washington Mall in Stamford!! What about a ballet studio across from a coffee shop and near a Burger King?! LOL! |
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 14, 2010 17:42:45 GMT -5
I never thought Stoneybrook was real, but I liked discovering that Stamford was real as a kid. I saw it listed on the back of a shampoo bottle.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 14, 2010 17:55:14 GMT -5
I never really thought about Stoneybrook being real or not. I just thought it was like made up cities on TV shows.
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Post by maddieruns on Jul 14, 2010 21:30:29 GMT -5
I don't think I ever thought it was real either, I remember when I first started reading the BSC I pronounced it as Storybook, CT in my head. It sounds like a place in a fairytale now that I think of it.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jul 15, 2010 13:48:24 GMT -5
There's a Stonington, though.,,,
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Post by anzuhana on Jul 15, 2010 16:59:21 GMT -5
I never thought of Stoneybrook as a real place, mostly because I read the back of the book where it said that Stoneybrook wasn't a real place.
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Post by bsc4ever on Jul 15, 2010 17:50:19 GMT -5
In my defense, in 1992, the books didn't have that information in the back.  |
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Jul 15, 2010 18:24:38 GMT -5
^ i believe you :]
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 15, 2010 19:41:49 GMT -5
In my defense, in 1992, the books didn't have that information in the back. I don't know how old you were in 1992, but I was an 11 year old with not so hot geography skills. I don't see any reason why you shouldn't have thought Stoneybrook was real. |
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Post by msstock87 on Jul 15, 2010 23:05:27 GMT -5
I never thought Stoneybrook was real, however their was a Stoneybrook apartments nearby where I live and when I was a kid I thought that was really cool!
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