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little table in the hall and the Pilgrims on the big table with us.
    Before we ate we all held hands and Madam said, “I am thankful to have my daughter and granddaughter so close by.”
    My grandfather said, “I am thankful to be in the bosom of my family,” which is a very embarrassing word and I don't know why Madam didn't say something considering she thinks “butt” is so terrible.
    My mother said, “I am thankful for new beginnings.”
    I said, “I am thankful for one good friend named Jonique McBee.”
    And then I figured out that this month things did get better.

DECEMBER

December 3
    Firstly, it is changing table time at school and now Jonique is all the way over by the supply closet and I am near the front, which I happen to know from the lunch aide is where Mr. Welsh puts talkers. The good thing is I have Pierra Kempner at my table and she is a kind of girl who is fun plus almost all her clothes and her sneakers and her coat are purple which Jonique and I think is cool but which our mothers would never go for. And I have Emily Kate and she is like my grandfather says: a good egg. But here's the really bad worst news: Right across from me is Melonhead. And all day long he kept flicking paper bits at me and I stared at him hard and mean so he would know to CUT IT OUT but he didn't. So finally I told him to STOP IT and Mr. Welsh told me to SETTLE DOWN and he didn't want to hear about the paper bits.
    But even that is not the biggest thing I am thinking about. The biggest thing is that I have aproblem that, like Madam says, is looming large, which means is extremely big and on your mind a lot, and it is Jake. So when I got home from school today I asked Madam to make me a recommendation on how to get a turn with that guinea pig. But at that minute she was working on answering a problem question for “Dear Lucy Rose” from a lady who has a daughter who has tantrums to get stuff that she wants. The lady said she is at her wits' end plus she is embarrassed every time they go to a store and she was Fed Up in Friendship Heights. I told Madam that my recommendation would be that the lady should say “FORGET IT” and BE FIRM about it and Madam said that was about the right answer but that her editor needs two hundred and fifty words so she would have to stretch it out. She said we would talk about my problem at dinner.
    But at dinner my mother said, “This is news to me, Lucy Rose. You never mentioned wanting to bring Jake home.”
    “That's because it was supposed to be a surprise,” I said.
    And then she made a big confession that she wasnot wild for rodents and I said, “Guinea pigs are also small mammals.”
    And she said, “I am really sorry, Lucy Rose. But whatever they are they make me feel all wiggly inside and cold outside and I know that is silly but that's just how I feel and I can't help it.”
    My face went so sad that everyone was quiet and then my mom said, “Do they have any other kind of animal we could watch?”
    I was thinking what if I had a tantrum like the girl in the letter? Would I get my way? But just by taking one look I could tell my mom is going to be firm on this one plus I could tell she feels sorry about it. But not as sorry as I feel.

December 7
    Today I got a Christmas card from my Michigan friends, Annie and Frannie, and it had their picture on it and I was glad they looked just the same as before. They wrote inside that my dad paid them one dollar EACH to walk his dog that used to be our dog and has the name of Ellie May. I used to walk her for free and I wish I still could but I am alittle glad that we left her in Ann Arbor because my dad needs the company, I think. I am bugging my mom for a new dog for here and I told her I would take care of him every minute but she said I have to go to school and she has to go to work and it wouldn't be fair to leave a puppy alone all day. I say no guinea pig and no dog is no fair.

December 10
    Since yesterday was Sunday and my mom had