Diary Entry: "A Girl's Life Long Ago"
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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Dear Diary,
I have to leave soon to go to my new job. I’m very happy to have gotten a baby-sitting job at the Hagen’s. These days, its so hard for a young girl to find a job, unless you are someone famous. I consider myself lucky to live in a nice house with a good family. It bothers me to think of the poor families who suffered during the Depression or the wives of soldiers who receive a telegram telling them that their husband has been killed in the war. Thinking of the war makes me scared to walk down these dark streets alone. I’ve never been too keen on being alone after dark; I know its childish since I’m almost seventeen but ever since the war started, I look at things differently than I did before.
A teenage couple just passed me on the other side of the street. I noticed that they were wearing matching football jackets. I often think about why girls do...