Category: suzanne rudd
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Darkness Within
Author’s Note: It’s hard to watch someone you love suffer, especially if you can’t do anything to help. This is from a parent’s viewpoint. The dark sky loomed, relentlessly following every step, blocking every turn. I never thought I could feel so powerless. How could the world twist so out of control that it would…
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Darkness Within
The dark sky loomed, relentlessly following every step, blocking every turn. I never thought I could feel so powerless. How could the world twist so out of control that it would target my child? I’ve always trailed my own unconventional path, but I can’t imagine what it feels like to be trapped in your own…
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From All the Unknown
Author’s Note: If you’ve ever been bullied or felt to feel less than… this one’s for you. You don’t really see me. You only judge what you believe. You never care to know the real me; Do I not feel? Can I have no pain? You don’t know, you just want to feel big again…
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Growing Up is Hard! And to make it even tougher, when Katie is the first one in her class to get a bra – she finds out boys can be dumb and girls can be mean. How does she get through it? Find out by reading Diary of a 6th Grade “c” Cup this week…
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New Diary, New Year
I’m calling freshman year in high school the great awakening because I hope it will wake me up to a new life, like the dawn of a horizon with endless possibilities. My high school is a funnel of nine smaller grade schools from three towns combining into one school of nearly four thousand kids. That…
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Valentine’s Day
Author’s Note: This is an excerpt from Diary of a 6th Grade “C” Cup, a Growing UP Girls book. Dear RBG: Yesterday was Valentine’s Day at school. I was up late filling out cards for every single person in my class. That’s the rule, so no one feels bad. We have to give a card…
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It was 1 AM at night, but the sun was still out. At least it was in my mind. That night, the sun, moon and stars converged and reflected in the shine of my silver metallic 1978 Camaro Berlinetta while I was cruisin’.The first time I went cruisin’, I thought it was stupid. All night…
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Exlusive Santa Sighting
Like Superman and Clark Kent, my father and Santa Claus were never seen on Christmas Eve at the same time. Every year the drill was the same. At our annual Christmas Eve family gathering, my dad would announce to all that he ran out of film and needed to go the store. About 20 minutes…
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Heart Soap
I like school, but I’m beginning to get the impression that school doesn’t like me.I don’t fit in. I’m not popular. I’m not a brainiac. And I’m not especially talented at anything, yet. I’m still a kid just trying to figure out who I am. But nobody sees me and I always feel like…
Growing UP Books by Suzanne Rudd 