I made a
choker for myself in high school out of
cheap costume jewelry beads.
It featured a ridiculously
large pink bead as a sort of pendant.
I still have it, but I do not wear it
every day.
There's just something about
cheap costume jewelry that
turns me on; I saw
Desperately Seeking Susan too many times, I think. Ditto
Pretty in Pink.
There was a
bow-legged cowboy at my
school who even spoke with a
wretched drawl, to spite his decidedly Northern roots.
In fifth grade we had a fight about the
South Pole. I said
everything is north of it, and he said I was
wrong.
Also
blonde, and therefore
even more wrong.
One day junior year I passed him in the hall, and he said, "Them are
some real purty jewels you got..."
And
I don't think he meant it.