We still had some roommate bonding to work on. “Well, I know she’s from New York City,” Jenna called out immediately. Three, I read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in eight hours.”

“One,” I said, when the eyes of the bus turned to me. Dalton had entirely lost interest in her own suggestion. As the manager (and resident weirdo, who no one wanted to talk to anyway), I sat near the back of the bus with the equipment, and there were only three other girls behind me-Madison, Kerri, and LoLo, offensive standouts on the field who were given the privilege of the long back-seat bench so that they could gossip privately and have a full view of their kingdom (the bus) in equal parts. Kitty revealed that she preferred 98 Degrees to N’Sync or the Backstreet Boys. I was on the older side of two, maybe three, and we were attending one of my father’s many bodybuilding competitions, because being a corporate banker in the early nineties meant living through a revolving door of plots from Michael Bay movies. My very first memory in life is being on a beach down the shore, surrounded by very brown, very shiny, very muscular men in Speedos, while also being very upset because my mother-who famously hated beaches throughout my childhood-would not let me go in the water. My younger brother was adopted by my parents as a baby, and no, I was not just saying that because I wished it were true.ģ.

Yes, the real Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek, and yes, I did have pictures to prove it, and yes, I did lose quite impressively, but I still got to go to Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, so what of it?Ģ. My three go-to truths at the time were:ġ. “Two lies and a truth?”Ī veteran of church youth groups, I had a few standard answers and fast facts about myself prepared for games like this one. Dalton said one afternoon on our drive from a match at Deerfield Academy.

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