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ladycat777, so I thought I'd post it here, too. Laugh at 10-year-old me, with gigantic glasses and bangs (fringe, for you English people out there who don't speak American).

Back row: Alex, Jason, Carly
Front row: me

This was my tenth birthday party, at the beach by Gladstones, post the sand-castle contest. The beakers that we're holding have sandcrabs in them, which we dumped in our castle's moat. I can't remember if the flags had a specific purpose or were just for general decoration.

Alex Baskin is the boy that I had a crush on in 2nd grade. I obviously gave valentines to everyone in the class, per elementary school tradition, but I slipped a little note into his that said something like "Darcy likes Alex." He didn't say anything, so later I went up to him and was like, I thought I saw some random bit of paper sticking out of your envelope when I gave it to you, what was it? And he said something to the effect of oh, it was something stupid; so I think I pretended as though some kid must have slipped it in there to try and make trouble. I was not very good at subtlety back in the day. I possibly am not even now. :)