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Turley, Kylie

>>KYLIE: I started writing in a journal when I was seven years old in about second grade and I'm not an avid journal keeper by any means but I've written in it ever so often ever since then. There was this time in eighth grade that really stands out to me where I came home and I was writing all about these boys, "This boy said this to me and this boy said that to me. I totally like this boy." It was funny and I went and looked it up before I did this and I actually don't remember who some of them are. It says their first names and I have no idea who I'm referring to but the funny thing is this moment completely stands out to me because while all of that was true, every single thing I wrote about was true, I knew at the time that the image it created was a lie. It just caught me off guard that I could write the literal truth and yet it still be a lie because while I was reporting on all these boys and who said what and who I thought was cute, it created an image of a kind of dopey teenager who was in love with buys but I knew that I didn't really like boys yet. I knew that all my friends liked boys so I thought that I should like boys but I didn't. So it was a lie even though it was all the truth and that just really stands out in my mind.