All I've ever wanted is for Julie Baker to leave me alone, for her to backverb.支持 off. You know, just give me some space. It all started the summer before second grade when our moving van pulled into her neighborhood. And since we're now about done with the eighth grade, that, my friend, makes more than half a decade of strategicadj.战略上的 avoidancenoun.避免 and socialadj.社会的 discomfortnoun.不适. She didn't just bargeverb.蹒跚 into my life. She bargedverb.蹒跚 and shovedverb.推挤 and wedgedverb.楔入 her way into my life.
Did we invite her to get into our moving van and start climbing all over boxes? No. But that's exactly what she did, taking over and showing off like only Julie Baker can. My dad tried to stop her. "Hey," he says as she's catapulting herself on board. "What are you doing? You're getting mud everywhere." So true, too. Her shoes were, like, caked with this stuff. She didn't hopverb.单足跳跃〔跳行〕 out, thoughadv.虽然.
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