Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.

And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.