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They Don't Call Her The Streak

Born visible, solid as the rest of us, Julia's little sister Carly gradually faded. At first she was merely easy to overlook, but by the time she was fifteen, most people could see right through her. She claimed (but who would know?) to have snuck into the Regal Theatre downtown on many occasions, to have watched the whole baseball season at County High without buying a ticket, and to have learned quite a bit on lovers' lane that high-school sex ed never covered. Somehow she found a guy.

Dad went to school
events alone it seemed
no shirt no shoes