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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"My name is Rosemarie Moretti. I have two secrets./p
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/ol
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"Ahh (wince.) You're judging me. I can feel you judging me. But it's not what you think./p
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"Nowadays I feel like If I mention the Beatles in front of any adult I get automatically judged as one of "those girls". The adult usually backs away from me as if beatlemania is contagious and darts their eyes from side to side as if looking for a convenient escape route. I've even seen one subconsciously press a hand to their ear as if I'm going to start screaming hysterically./p
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"I almost hate the fact that I like the Beatles. I don't want to be associated with screaming sobbing fourteen-year old British fanatics./p
p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;" /p
p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"Ask me anything about me and you'll find that everything else about me is practical. I have a future and big dreams. I'm a A+ student who takes every extra credit assignment. I haven't missed a single day at school. My school uniform is always tightly pressed and ironed. My laces are always done. My hair's done up in a tight bun. And that's all very well. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"I yank the hair tie out of my hair anxiously and thrust my backpack on the floor. My perfectly crisp socks are thrown in a corner. I change into a tank top and some confortable jeans before racing to my refuge, my purpose for waking up each day, and reluctantly going to bed at night./p
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"em style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; clear: none !important;"I am in pieces, like a shattered wine glass,/em/p
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;""Stupendo!" My mother cries the next day as I play an old favorite; "Fur Elise". My mother is dark skinned and dark-haired with a round body and full of passion. I am very much like her except I am as thin as the noodles my mom makes in her cooking. My eyes are a dark green, contrasting her dull brown and my hair is a lighter shade of brown than her almost-black./p
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"As always my eyes widen in surprise when George Harrison's voice saturated with his Liverpool accent fills the room, so different from the perfect resonation of the piano yet so beautiful and clear. I could listen all day to his voice… /p
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"I leap and snatch the album off the record player. "Ah," I laugh nervously, blinking at the change in lighting. "It is nothing mama. Some contemporary music assigned from school."/p
p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"It's not that my mom wouldn't approve, it's just that I don't want anyone- not even my mother- to know that I like the Beatles. It is my secret to keep. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"I waited tensely until I could hear her downstairs before resuming the album. As "Devil In Her Heart" plays, nostalgia washes over me. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(252, 252, 252, 0.95); clear: none !important;"Ask me anything about me and you'll find that everything else about me is practical. I have a future and big dreams. I'm a A+ student who takes every extra credit assignment. I haven't missed a single day at school. My school uniform is always tightly pressed and ironed. My laces are always done. My hair's done up in a tight bun. And that's all very well. /p
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