Speaking of nostalgia, does anyone else remember those Taffy Sinclair books?? Talk about 80s classics. Remember the one where snobby bitch Taffy decides to give one of the non-popular girls a makeover and teaches her to vomit up her cafeteria lunch (until a dramatic intervention by the girl's True Friends)? Proof that ten year old girls are evil.
There's some wholesome reading for impressionable pre-adolescents! I don't remember these being darker than the Babysitters' Club, Sweet Valley Twins, etc, but then again, authors were pretty heavy-handed with their morals back then. I am pretty sure someone died of a drug overdose in one of the first four Sweet Valley High books (which I shouldn't have been reading in elementary school, but they were way more interesting than their juvenile counterparts).
Oooh--here's some weird synchronicity. On checking out the Taffy Sinclair author's website, I see that she also wrote that 80s classic The Great Mom Swap. That book was actually made into a TV movie starring a girl I went to elementary school with. This post totally just went full circle.
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I swear that that particular Sweet Valley High book is the main reason why I have always been terrified of drugs! I just remember thinking that it sounded exactly like something that would happen to me - you fall in love with the bad boy, and a few minutes later snorting cocaine seems like a great idea only to die immediately from some heretofore invisible genetic heart disorder! Poor Regina!
i am right there with you! althoguh it sounds even funnier the way you describe it.
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