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candy.”“Those are two ideas,” she said.
    And then she was quiet and after a few minutes she said, “Throwing up in front of Adam Melon is probably punishment enough.”

January 9
    When I came home from school today I told my mom, “That is one thing you were right about.”
    “I was?” she said.
    “Every time I got near Melonhead he would make throw-up noises and hold his nose and he would not stop talking about it until Mr. Welsh asked him if he would like to go stand in the hall until he could find his manners.
    ”“That 's annoying,” my mom said.
    “It gets worse,” I told her.
    “When we were on theplayground and Mr. Welsh was not, Melonhead started singing a song he made up called ‘Hold Your Nose, It 's Lucy Rose’ which made me wild with anger.
    ”“I don 't blame you,” she said.
    “But then Jonique told him, ‘Adam, If you don 't quit it I will tell everyone about the time you stepped in dog poop.’ And he said he didn 't care but I think he did because he stopped singing. And then later when I was waiting for Madam to pick me up and he was waiting for his mom and we were the last two from third grade I told him that he should think of other people 's feelings, especially mine, and he said something that I could not hear very well but it sounded kind of like ‘Sorry.’”
    “That sounds like a wretched day,” my mom said.“It was,” I told her. “Wretched like you can 't believe.”

January 14
    I talked to my dad on the phone like I do every weekend and I told him about the whole thing. He said that one time he ate bad ham salad and threwup in front of his whole 5th grade class so he knows my pain. And he said that ever since then he has not been one for eating ham salad and I said I thought that after this I would not be one for eating black licorice. And he said, “Well, Lucy Rose, everyone has to learn about not lying so it 's good to learn it early.”“Did you learn early?” I asked him.“Yep,” he said. “When I was 8 years old I was mad at my sister so I hid her shoes so she'd be late for school and when Glamma found them in the laundry basket I told her I didn 't do it.”
    So I said, “What happened?”
    And he said, “When my sister had to stay after school I felt bad and confessed and Glamma made me tell her teacher what I did.”
    Even though it happened a long time ago, my dad 's story made me feel pretty much better. And it made me feel like he was not so far away.

January 20
    All day I was still thinking about everything that happened and I wrote an e-mail that said: “DearLucy Rose, I would like to make you a recommendation and that is that you tell kids not to lie. Signed, A Person Against Lying.”

January 21
    When I got home from school there was an e-mail and it said: “Dear Person Against Lying, Good idea. I will.”

FEBRUARY

February 5
    We have an all-valentine rule which Mr. Welsh is extremely serious about. The rule is that everyone has to bring a valentine for everyone else otherwise it isn't fair which is a plan I would be on the side of except it means I have to give one to Melonhead, which I do not feel like doing even if he did say “Sorry” which he might not have.
    Today I got to go to Jonique's after school and Mrs. McBee gave us valentine's milk which was really strawberry Quik and Jonique said, “When you do your valentines I think you should be allowed to skip Melonhead.”
    And I said, “I am one girl who agrees with that idea.”

February 6
    Today at recess I waited by the door to ask Mr. Welsh for an exception to the valentine rule. And the first thing he said was, “Why?”
    And I said, “What if I only have 22 cards and we have 23 people?”
    And he said, “If that happens you should make the last one by hand.”
    “What if I forget someone?” I asked him.
    “You won't,” Mr. Welsh said. “You have a terrific memory, Lucy Rose.”
    Plus, I thought, that would actually be a lie.
    “What if I don't want to give every