I’m back! I am able to use the camera on the tripod now- so no excuses!
I am going with yesterday’s topic- Childhood Memories– because it is easier for me than today’s Balance.
So, this was my diary for age eleven! Its title is pretty optimistic, unlike the contents. It looks like whoever picked it out for me expected me to start having boyfriends during the coming year. But in this diary, I mostly recorded what were the hit songs on American Bandstand, what I was wearing, and how nobody liked me. I was evidently pretty miserable in those awkward years; I wish I could go back and tell myself that I would end up having a really happy life!
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Congratulations on your return! I love the composition and the color palette. I had similar diaries, with the locks that had universal keys, but I never wrote more than one entry in them. Your story is rather poignant, but with a good ending!
I love the cover. Do you think your mother ever took a peek?
What beautiful handwriting you had, even back then! I want to read your diary!!
This may be one of my top five favorite of your 365 photos!