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pick up first,” I told her.
    “My mom only has one pair of glasses,” Jonique said.
    “That is such an admirable quality in a person,” Madam said. “But we misplace ours every five minutes so now we just buy a lot at the Price Club.”
    And then later when Jonique and I were under the estate sale quilt in my room in the dark and youcould hear the pigeons on my porch, Jonique said, “Mrs. Washburn gets on my very last nerve.”
    And I said, “Mine too.” Then I told her that I call Adam Melon Melonhead in my mind.
    “That is hilarious,” she said and then she laughed so hard she snorted.
    And then we were quiet for a while and I thought Jonique might be asleep but then I thought she might not so I said, “Hey, Jonique.”
    And she said, “Hey, Lucy Rose.”
    And I said, “Here's a thing about me: My parents got a separation so now my dad doesn't live with us.”
    “That's what I already figured out,” Jonique said.
    “You did?” I said. “How come you didn't say anything?”
    “Because I thought it would make you sad,” she said.
    “Sometimes it does,” I told her.

November 18
    On the next Monday I got an e-mail from my dad and it said: “Hello, L.R., BBBBBBBBBBB. See Bees. Get it? Dad.”
    See Bees is the first two-word palindrome I ever heard of. My dad is smart like I can't believe. It comes from being a teacher, I think. I e-mailed back the palindrome of “Wow.”
    And he wrote back “XOX” for one hug and two kisses and also for another palindrome.

November 22
    A good thing is that instead of having New Words today we got to make Pilgrim people out of dried leaves that you peel off of corn on the cob. The greatest thing was that the teacher for Pilgrim people was Mrs. McBee. Man-o-man, was I surprised. She was wearing turkey earrings and carrying a big box of stuff and then she said, “I need a volunteer.”
    And I called out, “Pick me! Pick me, Mrs. McBee!”
    And she did pick and it was me and I got to stand up in front and be in charge of the gluing for the demonstration of making Pilgrim bodies. And then Jonique got to glue the eyes on the Pilgrim man and Sam got to help make the Pilgrim lady andMelonhead didn't get to be a volunteer at all and I will tell you privately, his Pilgrim wasn't so hot looking.

November 23
    Today I had a very tricky idea. When my mom was in the shower I made an e-mail letter to [email protected]. And here is what it said: “Dear Lucy Rose, Do you know any way to get a man and a lady who are separated to go back together?” I signed it “From Someone You Don't Know” and I clicked on SEND.

November 24
    I got an answer from my “Dear Lucy Rose” e-mail and here is what Madam wrote: “Dear Someone I Don't Know, When people get separated the people who love them best usually wish they would go back to being a couple. Kids wish this especially— not that I am saying you are a kid—but the truth is that there is not a way.”
    That is not what I call good advice.

November 26, Thanks giving Day
    Our Thanksgiving dinner is always at Madam and Pop's but all of the other years of my whole life my mom and dad and I got there by plane. This year my mom and I walked over in the morning and right away Madam gave us the job of making pies. Pecan is Madam's best pie and pumpkin is Pop's so we made both of them and while we were waiting for them to cook my mom opened the bottle of vanilla extract and put some on her finger and rubbed it behind our ears for perfume and Pop said we smelled delicious. Then my mom and I cooked the cranberry sauce and Madam made mashed parsnips which aren't so bad and Pop cooked the turkey because that is his number one cooking job every year and we all set the table with Madam's plates that you have to be really careful with because they came from her old aunt. Madam had a big bowl of yellow flowers for the table but when I gave her the Pilgrim people she said they were the best decorations ever so we put the flowers on the