Introduction
By: Captain Jag CT-55/11 9009
Welcome, one and all, to the all-new, revised, re-mastered edition of Esme123's literary work of American Girl fanfiction titled Why Do We Think About Age. The fanfic is about two main American Girls: Felicity Merriman and Kit Kittredge (nee Margaret Kittredge), and both these characters were created by the wonderful Valerie Tripp. Their stories primarily deal with guy problems as they get older. Previously deleted several days ago, this work of fanfiction is now edited and restored back to the site for the benefit of all eager readers, including those who have not had a chance to exhibit this work during the time when the work itself was removed from the site.
It is sort of speculated that the reason why Esme123 decided to remove this work of fiction was probably because she was doing her own housework maintained on her personal profile, as all stories belonging to the author are posted directly on a pen name writer's profile, as well as on the category they belong to. Why she did that remains to be seen. It's possible that she was personally discouraged from continuing it, given that most of the reviews about the story focused mainly on her grammar and format, or maybe she just lost interest in the story entirely, and decided to remove the work from the site, since it was considered "junk". But to Captain Jag, no work of fiction, whether meticulous or sloppy, should ever be thrown away. For this reason, this is why Why Do We Think About Age was restored and brought back to the site: so that others may get a look into the creative mind of Esme123, as well as the great ideas that she had.
For this restoration to be made possible, the original work had to be salvaged. I was in the habit of saving the web pages of any work of fanfiction I took interest to, and currently, any work of fiction in the American Girl section caught my interest, particularly Why Do We Think About Age. Curious about the substance of the story, and with the intention to read this work of fiction on my own computer, I decided to save these web pages and look through them at my own leisure. The spelling and grammar were, as MRSTJ1 once put it, "…the most atrocious spelling, punctuation and grammar I have ever seen…", but I could pretty much live with that, and it is to Esme123's good fortune that I could interpret most of the content of the story as best as I could, though it took a while to process most of the information (which is why most reviewers on fanfiction will make comments on a person's basic grammar, spelling, and punctuation if they see fit, because maintaining these three facets in the English language, as with any language, makes it a whole lot easier for the reader to get a gripping idea as to what is taking place behind every literary work.) I had thought of posting a review on this literary work of fiction, but unfortunately, the work itself was removed from the site. The web pages that I saved, including the reviews for the story, would have been collector's items if I did not go to the trouble of restoring these things back on the site. Granted, before I could do that, I had to ask Esme123's permission, since this Fan Fiction website has regulations about that kind of stuff.
Touching up the Felicity and Kit stories was like touching up Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper painting, except this was literature, and I was trying to edit and revise. First, I had to identify misspelled words, which I managed to do successfully, thanks to Microsoft Word, as well as locate inconsistencies in grammar and syntax, including parallelism. Finally, I had to divide the paragraphs in the appropriate format, much like the standard format of contemporary novels.
The revision is my doing, but the story ideas belong primarily to Esme123. All this was done with Esme123's permission.
Thanks for taking interest!