She is so skinny, many did not know her except in the () Baptist Church. In school, everyone knew of her rich cousin, not her. Her cousin was debutante with all the other rich girls in the school. She wanted to go to college and become rich like those girls around her. She never dated, so she did not go to the prom in her junior or senior year. Somehow, she just enjoy being by herself. When she left that school to go to college, she never had the desire to return to her childhood on that street. The quietness of the street will always be in her childhood memories.

Word on the Street
Collection: Georgetown Library
Prompt: If the streets of your childhood or where you grew up could talk, what stories would they tell?
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