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Yesterday after returning home from dropping Rachel off at the airport both Rich and I needed a distraction and a #summerofrich hike was not in the cards for us as it was pouring rain so it seemed like the perfect afternoon to see the new film adaptation from Judy Blume’s classic book “Are You There God It’s Me Margaret”, which is now sadly one of many books that have since been banned.
I knew it would be light and funny. It did not disappoint. It still didn’t stop me from getting very emotional either.
Having grown up reading Judy Blume books I dreamed of becoming an author just like her. Although her books are purely fiction based they always felt so relatable, especially this one.
It’s a timeless story about a young adolescent girl on the verge of womanhood having to start over in a new city.
I was once that same shy little girl who only days after arriving home from overnight camp one summer (just like Margaret), packed up the life I’d always known and moved with my family to a new city, 5 hours away. I knew no one when I got to my new home only days before the start of a new school year. I had to build all new friendships (just like Margaret), which I did and I am grateful to still be friends with some of them today. When I look back now, almost 44 years later, there is truly no other place I’d rather have called home during those formative years and beyond.
It’s been several decades now since I read “Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret?”, yet every memory of those awkward, messy and weird prepubescent years took me right back to that little girl in me as I watched the movie. From the time in grade 6 when all the girls attended an assembly with their moms and the best advice we were given at the time was; don’t wear white pants, to playing spin the bottle and 7 minutes in heaven at our first boy/girl parties, to buying my first bra, to where I was when I got my first period (it was overnight camp by the way and I was scared and felt very alone; but at least I came well prepared!), to practicing “we must, we must, we must increase our busts with my girlfriends.
Yup it was an awkward, messy and weird time those prepubescent years.
You must, you must, you must see the movie!
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