“Summers with Rene began with a cigarette in one side of her mouth and a squinting of her eyes as she thought . . . . Shortly, she would make her pronouncement and it would seem magical no matter how often the words were said. "It's a beach day," blessed the day. The rest was understood. No more needed to be said. I knew that she knew. She had the gift to read what would come from the skies as surely as my mother could see births and betrayals in the cards.” MagicGiftBeachBlessingsSummertime Book:American Girl: Memories That Made Me Source: American Girl: Memories That Made Me
“I was lying on a chaise lounge trying to get some sun on my legs and arms when two pigeons, thinking I was a slab of concrete and glad for the shade, started mating beneath me. The sounds were getting louder. This was not how I had wanted to spend my first summer out of high school” SexHigh SchoolComing Of AgeSummertime Book:American Girl: Memories That Made Me Source: American Girl: Memories That Made Me