Horse Camp by Nicole Helget

break to calm down, but now I am back.)
    Thanks for sending the information on breast development. I knew all of the information already, but I can’t help wondering why mine don’t grow. I’ve read that breast size is genetic, so I was just wondering why mine didn’t look more like yours yet. You know, really full and round. It may be due to low estrogen or a problem with my pituitary gland.
    Remember all those African girls whose mothers would start ironing and pounding down their breasts at ages nine and ten? Weird! If my daughter started developing breasts early, I would never do that. I would tell her that she looks beautiful, and she’s lucky! Remember when you held a medical seminar to tell the mothers about the pain and damage they were inflicting upon their daughters, and they just looked at you like you were the weird one? Like you didn’t understand that their daughters were under constant sexual pressure from the men in their village. Like you didn’t understand that they wanted educations for their daughters rather than early marriages and babies. Like you didn’t get that they really believed that stalling breast development could improve their daughters’ lives. C’mon, ladies! I studied those girls really hard, and it was clear that breast ironing did not stop their development in the least. You can’t stop progress and shouldn’t mess with nature. Someone should have told those mothers that.
    Yes, I am enjoying my books, but only because I’m finding so many things about them that are sinful. I will have no problem developing an entire curriculum about the need to censor all zombie, werewolf, and vampire books. In Zombie Cowboy , the main character, Eamon Cloversniffer, falls in love with the beautiful and thoughtful and very poor Patience Lonelyheart, who has to take care of her dying father before she marries the town’s richest man, who is the mean and terrible Handle Boomton. Patience, who has long and glorious hair just like mine, admires Eamon’s pale skin and red lips and tender voice and especially the way he calls her Honey Dear, but then he admits to her that he is a zombie and is doomed to walk the earth for eternity. Eamon Cloversniffer loves Patience so much but can’t marry her or he will destine her to the same terrible fate. But, now Patience and Eamon are debating whether they should turn Patience’s father into a zombie so that he never dies, and she’ll never have to marry Handle Boomton. I must say, the book is very interesting. I can see why so many young girls read these books and get swept away and on the road to hell before they even know what happened. Lucky for me, I know that what I am reading is pure sinful temptation.
    Have you heard from Daddy? He sent an envelope with money to Stretch with a Post-it note that said, For school clothing and supplies . Why is Stretch supposed to take us school shopping? Daddy said we’d be home long before school started.
    And what do you mean that I should “prepare myself for the worst” regarding your chances for an acquittal? Seriously, Mom. You can’t honestly be thinking of going to prison over all this nonsense! Daddy told you he’d testify on your behalf if you’d just publicly say you’re sorry and repent. Wouldn’t it be exciting if Daddy brought you to the front of the new church and laid his hands on you in cleansing and forgiveness and did that thing in which he calls down the power of the Spirit and all the people shout and lift their hands and pray to the Lord? Maybe you could even tremble and cry and fall to your knees, and all the congregation could call out, Heal her, Jesus. Heal her, Jesus . And Daddy would finally banish the devil from your body and then lift you to your feet and kiss your forehead and say, You are forgiven, Sister. You are healed. Go and sin no more. Wouldn’t that be great?! Remember how Daddy would get