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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
Teens
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True Confessions of a Wallflower
OK. I admit it. I spent plenty of time as a wallflower at high school dances. My mother insisted I go to these events, but I went most grudgingly. After awhile, I started hanging out with the policeman stationed out in the hallway for "security", Officer Munk. Looking back, I wonder what he thought about having a 13-year-old girl chatting with him for hours during school dances, but I am most grateful he did so!
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
I noticed that the final item posted on the front of Towne’s store was a notice for a dance at the Perkins Tavern on Saturday night. I thought about the dancing school taught by a traveling dancing master at Perkins Tavern about a year and a half before. My mother and father had insisted that I attend. I had reluctantly agreed to go, since I had not wanted to vex my mother, so very ill at the time. No boy had asked me to stand up with him, however. Not one. As I had been far too shy to line up on the dance floor without a partner, I had sat by the wall in the best wallflower tradition. In the end, I had learned the steps, but only by observing others and listening to the dancing master’s instructions.
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