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me and shrugged his shoulders. Then they went off into the other room. Rachel still had her arms around him.
    I couldn’t believe it.
    It was unbelievable, that is why.
    I couldn’t stay.
    I slipped out and got my coat and crept out into the dark night.
    I waited until I got to the gate and into the street but then I just couldn’t help it, tears started pouring out of my eyes. Even though I would look like a panda in a skirt I didn’t care. I heard footsteps behind me.
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    If it was Dave coming to apologize, he could just forget it. Then I heard Jas’s voice, “Georgia, it’s me, I’ll—I’ll walk back with you. I saw what happened.”
    She might be a complete and utter fringey annoyance, but Jas was my bestest pal.
    She put her arm around me and said, “This is just friendly, it’s not, you know…I’m not…er…”
    I said, “Oh this is awful, it wasn’t just that I was displaying glaciosity to Dave…it’s well, I thought he wasn’t just a snoggee but also a mate. He taught me the secrets of the Horn and now he has gone off with another girl…”
    Jas went, “I know.”
    â€œJust went off immediately with another girl.”
    â€œI know.”
    â€œI’m not even warm in my grave.”
    â€œI know.”
    â€œShe’s got slightly ginger hair.”
    â€œI know.”
    â€œMy smile is much nicer than hers.”
    â€œI know…er…hang on, is it?”
    â€œYes.”
    â€œRight.”
    â€œI am abandoned on the ship of life.”
    â€œI know.”
    â€œJas, you are not really cheering me up.”
    â€œWell, I know and that is because there is really nothing to be cheerful about; I would hate to be you.”
    in bed
11:45 p.m.
    Jas says she will never sympathize with me again after I pulled her stupid hat down over her stupid face and she fell over a paving stone. That is the good news, but otherwise life is absolutely beyond the valley of crap and entering the Universe of Totally Useless.
    midnight
    I lit a candle at my altar to Robbie (after I had removed scuba-diving Barbie and some chewed-up moth).
    Why oh why did this happen to me? I must have done something incredibly bad in a past life.
    Perhaps I was that Roman bloke who played with his instrument whilst Rome burnt down, Tyrannosaurus rex. Oh no, I don’t mean Tyrannosaurus, I mean Nero. If it was Tyrannosaurus rex,that would mean that a dinosaur played a violin, which is clearly not going to happen.
    Maybe if I pray for forgiveness and promise to be a better person, Baby Jesus will let me have what I want.
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    Looking out of my window at the Infinite sky. I prayed out, “Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sins, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me.
    â€œBut that is your way.
    â€œAnd I am not questioning your wisdomosity.
    â€œIn future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.”

son of angus, otherwise known as cross-eyed gordy
    sunday march 13th
    I have accidentally come on a nature ramble with my “family.” That is how upset I am. And the nature ramble involved getting into the clown car in order to get into nature. This should give you some idea of my state of sheer desperadoes. Vati had his World War II flying helmet on and his goggles. It was vair vair sad and tragic.
    I slumped down in the back of the Clown-mobile. I even let Libby make me look “niiiiice.” Her idea of looking nice is not the same as most other human beings’ (apart from pygmies). She tied my hair in little pigtails with bits of wool. But I don’t care. My life is over and I am a mad toddler’s playdough person.
    Vati was in an appallingly good mood. When two women were walking along (practically at the same speed as the clown car), he wound down the window and shouted, “Your big day