"Who's she?" she asked. She liked to say the phrase her once living grandmother used when insulted. "I am not just a 'she'. In fact, guess what," she said as she scowled. "I am a person." Her teacher who was a strong feminist and shopped at Anthropologie grinned menacingly at the boys who chose to debate her star student.
Alexandra was entirely a different girl this year. She accepted the term "she" and felt it was impossible to be just a person instead of something related to a gender. "Why, I'll make my own posse. My own commune, in fact." And so she did.
She was entering her first year in the college known as one just beside the great almighty University of Maine. With her joined five young men just graduated from nearby high schools and lacking a mother figure. Yes, of course, she was only nineteen, but she knew she could make them her own.
Every afternoon, they would meet in the corridor of the English department looking to her for answers of the female species, the ones who rare in their miserable lives.
One day, Alexandra "the Greatest", they would call her, realized the solution to these problems of the so-called castaways. She would write a whole-length rule book for them. No halitosis for one, she wrote. Definitely, no sexist remarks, she typed as she thought of her own pet peeve of the evil word "she". She continued the paper until it was an entire ten pages long, detailing the horror of every wrong mistake a male could make towards a girl. By the end of the list, any man reading would be too frightened to let their lips mouth a "she", for she was through.
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The English tell rude children who say 'she' instead of "Aunt Grace', "Who's she--the cat's mother?"
"Through' or 'thorough' for the last word--either could work, but they lead the reader in somewhat different directions.
This is the one where you had a clear idea from the start of where you wanted to go? You liked your idea and material? This is the one you have some hope for? Or is it the first-person piece you would stake your claim on?
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