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"Not Another "Poor Little Girl" Story!"

Summary:

The story Lulu tells to Alvin is adapted from the very first story I ever wrote.
I was eight years old at the time, and I wrote it because I wanted something new to read.
By the time I finished writing it, I knew beyond any doubt that I wanted to be, HAD to be a writer.
I didn't realize until years later how much Lulu's stories, brilliantly written by John Stanley
influenced this work.

Notes:

(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

"Where are you going, Alvin?" Lulu asked one Saturday afternoon.

"I'm going exploring in the woods."

"By yourself?"

"By myself."

Lulu thought quickly. She couldn't let a little kid like Alvin go off by himself, even if he
was a little pest sometimes. "Did I ever tell you about the time when" she began.

"Not another Poor Little Girl story," Alvin interrupted.

"This isn't a Poor Little Girl story," Lulu said, quickly switching gears. "This is about the time I went exploring."

"When?" Alvin asked in a skeptical tone of voice.

"Just last Saturday, when you were at your grandmother's. I asked my mother if I could go exploring, and she said I could, as long as I got home in time for supper."

"But it was snowing last Saturday. You went exploring in the snow?"

"Yes. I dressed warm, and I walked further in the woods than I'd ever walked before, and all of a sudden I came to a beebleberry bush crammed with ripe beebleberries."

"I didn't think beebleberries were real. I thought you made them up. Did you eat any of them?"

"Yes," Lulu said, "and they tasted like a combination of blueberries and blackberries and raspberries But I didn't eat
too many. There was no sense in being greedy. And then I walked some more, until I came to a cave."

"And there was a bear in the cave, right?" Alvin hinted.

"No. There were two men there, with their backs to me and six bags from a bank. One of the men asked how long they'd have
to lay low. Before the other man could answer, I picked up one of the bags, and hit the robbers over the head and knocked them out.
Then I went to the ranger's station, and the rangers called the police,and the police came and arrested the two men, and said that I was a
very resourceful little girl, and they gave me a hundred dollars as a reward."

"You can buy a lot of candy and ice cream and sodas with a hundred dollars," Alvin remarked.

"I didn't buy anything with it. As I was walking out of the woods, I met the Poor Little Girl, and I gave the
money to her."

"I knew it," Alvin muttered. "I just knew it."

"Knew what?" Lulu asked.

"I knew you'd slip the Poor Little Girl into your story."

Notes:

I wrote the original story in the first person,with myself as the heroine.
The parts about the berries in the snow (but not beebleberries),
the robbers in the cave, and the reward from the police were in my original story.
I didn't realize until now how much I remembered.