A Year in Reading: Caroline Kim
by Caroline Kim
Dec 10, 2020
4 minutes
This is the year I reverted back to my twelve-year-old self.
When my parents moved cross-country this summer, from South Carolina to California where I live, they brought with them a box of journals I’d kept from age twelve to my early thirties. I read some of the early ones aloud to my children to make them laugh. “He is so cute!!!!” I gushed about my crush on Rick Springfield, a new actor on my favorite soap, General Hospital. “He’s 33, but so young looking!”
I wrote that I was pretty sure my friends and I had ESP. I wrote about the latest craze for puzzle toys: The Magic Snake, Rubik’s Cube, Whip-It, Pryaminx, and the Missing Link. I recorded in great detail
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