Hit The Road, Manny: A Manny Files Novel - Plot & Excerpts
Well actually, she cried herself to sleep, and she was still sniffling even though her eyes were closed. She had put on her Lollipop Guild T-shirt and had her thumb up next to her mouth like she was going to suck it, but she wasn’t. Lulu told Belly that sucking your thumb is for babies, but that’s not what made her quit doing it. She quit after India told her that sucking her thumb would give her buckteeth like a beaver. Belly stopped sucking her thumb immediately. Mom says that Belly is vain. She told me that vain is when you care too much about how you look.“Like when you wear that mud mask on your face to get rid of the lines around your eyes?” I asked her, touching the tiny little lines next to Mom’s eyes. She calls them crow’s-feet because it looks like a crow landed on her face and tried to scratch out her eyes with its feet.“No. That’s necessary hygiene, like brushing your teeth,” Mom said, slapping my hand away from her face. “Vain is more like when your uncle Max tries on jeans and asks the saleslady how the rearview is.”I’ve been with Uncle Max when he shops for jeans.
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