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“You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver

“You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver

“We get in and I start the car. 鈥淎re you going to be good to Lani?鈥� I ask. I think of Tommy Cook, a pale boy with psoriasis; we used to tie him to a chair with bungee cords and put him in the middle of the road, then hide. Few cars would actually come down Rainbow Drive, but when they did, it always surprised me that the drivers would slow their vehicles and swerve around the chair. None of them ever got out of their cars to help Tommy; it was as though they were in on the prank. I don鈥檛 know how Tommy managed to let us catch him more than once. Maybe he liked the attention.

鈥淚鈥檒l try,鈥� Scottie says. 鈥淏ut it鈥檚 hard. She has this face that you just want to hit.鈥�

鈥淚 know what you mean,鈥� I say, thinking of Tommy, but realize I鈥檓 not supposed to empathize. 鈥淲hat does that mean?鈥� I ask. 鈥淭he kind of face that you want to hit. Where did you get that?鈥� Sometimes I wonder if Scottie knows what she鈥檚 saying or if it鈥檚 something she recites, like those kids who memorize the Declaration of Independence.

鈥淚t鈥檚 something Mom said about Danielle.鈥�

鈥淚 see.鈥� Joanie has carried her juvenile meanness into her adult life. She sends unflattering pictures of her ex-friends to the Advertiser to put in their society pages. She always has some sort of drama in her life, some friend I鈥檓 not supposed to speak to or invite to our barbecues, and then I hear her on the phone gossiping about the latest scandal in an outraged and thrilled voice. 鈥淵ou are going to die,鈥� I鈥檒l hear her say. 鈥淥h my God, you will just die.鈥�

Is this where Scottie gets it? By watching her mother use cruelty as a source of entertainment? I feel almost proud that I have made these deductions without the blogs and without Esther, and I鈥檓 eager to tell Joanie about all of this, to prove that I was capable without her.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants