It explained everything: tripping over her own feet, blowing a chunk out of her dresser, turning into such a tosser whenever Tobey O'Hara talked to her, forgetting her French homework, ruining her new tape deck by getting mad and kicking it.

It even explained having to get up to pee just in time to overhear Audrey groaning into the phone about Dad and getting married and all of it.

Hard to avoid accidents when you were one.

Next time Ace caused an explosion in her bedroom, she ruined the comforter and burned her hands, but she meant to do it.

"But She Meant to Do It" 030909 by merripestin at yahoo dot com
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