first comment: a U.S. state second comment: a famous person third comment: a movie fourth comment: a body part fifth comment: the last word of the story should be _______. Michael Bunn: Georgia Christopher DeBoard: Genghis Khan Scott Barnett: The sound of Music Kevin Doherty: the uvula Mark Taatjes: orgasm. THE JOURNAL OF MARIA SMYTH page 1 I can already tell it’s going to be really hard to write in this notebook while this stupid bus is bouncing all over the highway, but I am going to have to deal with it because I have already been riding this thing for a couple of days, and I have got to find something to do with my hands, not to mention my mind, while these endless miles and endless hours keep rolling by relentlessly. Plus, I am off to start a whole new life in a whole new place, so I figured it would be the perfect time to start writing a journal. So, the last time when we stopped at that Stuckey’s and the driver was having a cigarette, I ran in and bought this notebook and this pen and this is going to be the place where I can write down all the thoughts and dreams that run through my head every day. So, since this is the first page of my new journal, I guess I should write down all the basic facts about me which you might not know. I am 22 years old. My name is Maria Smyth, although up until a day or two ago it was Maria Smith. But, I figured that since I was starting this new life, I might as well have a new, well, sort of new, name to go with it. In reality, though, no one knows what my real name is, because I was a foundling and I was raised in a Catholic orphanage in my home town of St. Kwiatoslaw, South Dakota. Somebody left me in a basket at the police station when I was just a day or two old, so they gave me the last name of “Smith” and they called me “Maria” after Sheriff Banaszek’s wife. He was the guy who found me in the basket. So, when I climbed on this bus a few days ago, I decided to jazz up my name a little by spelling it with a “y” even though I’m still going to pronounce it “Smith”.
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