unhip public high school. Suburban Philadelphia is not the easiest place in the world to be sixties cool and stylish. There aren't many smoke-filled coffee houses or hippie wanderers. It's clean here, upper middle class—you know, the Ford Explorer. Saturday evening Mass, country club for dinner scene. I came back to Philadelphia because it isn't all that *hip: because there is nothing "profound' to do. I came home to get myself together. It was time to grow up. I'm not as cool as I used to be. I never do anything wry exciting or off the wall. at least not by my old standards. My friends from boarding school have for the most part become nothing more than distant memories. They're all off in New York City or Mexico pretending to work on their spirituality, but really just partying their lives away. I stay home a lot. I'm at the library a couple nights a week. I read, write letters, I do some painting. Last weekend, I watched The Cofer Purpk with my mom, collected some weather data for a chemistry project, and had a tea party with my little sister. C.* been spending time with the people I met in the high school production of
unhip public high school. Suburban Philadelphia is not the easiest place in the world to be sixties cool and stylish. There aren't many smoke-filled coffee houses or hippie wanderers. It's clean here, upper middle class—you know, the Ford Explorer. Saturday evening Mass, country club for dinner scene. I came back to Philadelphia because it isn't all that *hip: because there is nothing "profound' to do. I came home to get myself together. It was time to grow up. I'm not as cool as I used to be. I never do anything wry exciting or off the wall. at least not by my old standards. My friends from boarding school have for the most part become nothing more than distant memories. They're all off in New York City or Mexico pretending to work on their spirituality, but really just partying their lives away. I stay home a lot. I'm at the library a couple nights a week. I read, write letters, I do some painting. Last weekend, I watched The Cofer Purpk with my mom, collected some weather data for a chemistry project, and had a tea party with my little sister. C.* been spending time with the people I met in the high school production of