"Fingers are like forks," she would say and persist in eating with her hands. 2017.81.16

At late hours, she would quietly build a tent with her sheets and read stories with a flashlight. 2017.81.26

By placing fake teeth under her pillow, she would collect extra money from the tooth fairy. 2017.81.25

For fear of being a wallflower at dances, she would dress up in striking outfits. 2017.81.40

In class, one day, she was bitten by a mosquito and became unruly. Her teacher made her stay late after school. 2017.81.5

In her drama club, she would re-enact scenes from violent movies. 2017.81.32

In order to be fasionably thin she would crash diet though she was warned it would be curtains for her stomach. 2017.81.38

Inspired by a visit to the Untied Nations, she painted her favorite doll black. 2017.81.9

Landscape/Loftscape #13 2017.80a,b

Looking at her books upside down, she exercised both her mind and her body. 2017.81.46

Loves me, loves me not, loves me...she would demolish rose after rose until it came out right. 2017.81.42

Not wanting to be publicly kissed by a boy, she avoided games of spin-the-bottle. 2017.81.34

On hot summer nights she would refresh herself by staring at the mural on the living room wall. 2017.81.22

Re-Visions 2017.81.1-47

She always drew the same picture - a blond oriental lady standing on a stage 2017.81.2

She always read th endings of books before the beginnings. 2017.81.47

She became an expert shoplifter. 2017.81.17

She couldn't grasp the logic behind table manners. 2017.81.15

She couldn't sleep unless she was thoroughly tucked in. 2017.81.24

She derived great pleasure from dressing her boy dolls in the undergarments of her girl dolls. 2017.81.10

She developed slowly but learned how to stuff her bra so that both sides matched. 2017.81.36

She enjoyed making loud noises in quiet places. 2017.81.18

She first learned the facts of life from a friend while on a class trip to the bread factory. 2017.81.29

She had a poor sense of direction and would awkwardly miss her mark when playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. 2017.81.14

She imagined herself a starlet. 2017.81.44

She inevitably ran her nylons immediately after putting them on. 2017.81.41

She learned about morality at an early age. Innocence gave way to Good and Evil...everything appeared to be black and white 2017.81.1

She painted racing stripes on her hula hoop in hopes that it would go faster. 2017.81.19

She played with her slinky toys and wore banana curls and played with her banana curls and wore her slinky toys 2017.81.3

She scotch-taped her nose up before dates hoping it would stay that way. 2017.81.37

She secretly lusted for her television idols. 2017.81.31

She was forced to spend long hours watching walls in order to redress her wrongdoings. 2017.81.6

She was horrified to learn that she had been walking around school all day with her skirt hiked up in the back. 2017.81.7

She was mortally afraid of clowns. 2017.81.12

She was often gripped with the desire to be elsewhere. 2017.81.21

She was repeatedly told to stop looking at her feet while in the company of adults. 2017.81.11

She was told that her eyes were her greatest asset. 2017.81.39

She would accompany her father to his National Rifle Association meetings where all of the fathers would show off their guns. 2017.81.33

She would also gaze out the front window of her house and watch the sinking ships rocking back and forth on the bay. 2017.81.23

She would chew gum until the sugar ran out and then stick it under her seat 2017.81.4

She would demurely sip cherry Kool Aid from a wine glass and puff on bubble gum cigarettes. 2017.81.43

She would often pass the shopping bag woman. One day the woman stood up, dropped her blankets and revealed her manhood. 2017.81.28

She would rendezvous in her bed with the sandman every night. 2017.81.27

She would sneak licks of icing before blowing out the candles on her birthday cake. 2017.81.13

Thereafter, she would break out in peculiar rashes and lose her voice when eating certain foods. 2017.81.30

They were continually telling her that she had stars in her eyes. 2017.81.45

When her mother first noticed a red stain on her panties and roared, "You're a woman now", she promptly fainted. 2017.81.35

When she played the beautiful flower in her school play, she memorized her lines perfectly but forgot when to say them. 2017.81.8

While playing with her toys, she entertained cowgirl fantasies. 2017.81.20