You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She__ clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy. I suddenly wish I smoked cigarettes and was as clever and beautiful and manipulative as she. I want to be that way at the restaurants I visit, as I__ walking to my car, with certain friends who might understand. The actress has played her part well; she__ made me want to emulate her base desires if only for a while. Does that make me impressionable, a fool, or someone who will recognize the deepest secrets of her heart?I fight hard to stay young__o keep the lines from further etching my face and hands and breasts, presumably to trick the world into believing I am young. I__ an actress playing a part. I__ afraid to tell the truth. I fear losing those younger or becoming those older. In the presence of youth, a sort of unseen age-osmosis occurs within me. The years drop away and I don__ want to leave. It__ utterly selfish but I don__ care. After all, I__ no older than they____e just been so longer. I was nineteen only yesterday and they don__ retire nineteen-year-old actresses.
On Being a Rat and Other Observations
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I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She__ clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy. I suddenly wish I smoked cigarettes and was as clever and beautiful and manipulative as she. I want to be that way at the restaurants I visit, as I__ walking to my car, with certain friends who might understand. The actress has played her part well; she__ made me want to emulate her base desires if only for a while. Does that make me impressionable, a fool, or someone who will recognize the deepest secrets of her heart?I fight hard to stay young__o keep the lines from further etching my face and hands and breasts, presumably to trick the world into believing I am young. I__ an actress playing a part. I__ afraid to tell the truth. I fear losing those younger or becoming those older. In the presence of youth, a sort of unseen age-osmosis occurs within me. The years drop away and I don__ want to leave. It__ utterly selfish but I don__ care. After all, I__ no older than they____e just been so longer. I was nineteen only yesterday and they don__ retire nineteen-year-old actresses.
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