Mish asked:


I just graduated high school and I’m loaded with plans for my future. But in between the book I’m writing, the biology and chemistry courses I’m reviewing, and the novels and personal finance books I’m reading, I feel like I’m going to be that triple chinned kid dressed in Victorian clothes with lots of brain power, but no life.
I would happily join clubs, but my town is very small and doesn’t offer things like that.
Thank you all!

James

Rose DeWitt Bukater asked:


I had this storyline in my head for a while.

A 16-year-old girl lives with her family during the beginning years of the Civil War, in a southern town. Her parents take a natural southern view – pro-slavery – but the girl befriends one of the slaves on her family’s plantation and her eyes are opened to the harsh life the slaves live. One day she gets it in her head to run away and join the north army, so, after a few months of planning, she steals her older cousin’s clothes, cuts her hair with her father’s knife, and runs away. She joins a northern army and befriends an 18-year-old in her camp, whom she falls in love with. Later on, as she is fighting, she sees the man she loves fall dead and kills herself one stormy midnight by hanging herself in the camp.

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Then how about this? They fight alongside each other in a battle, and she decides she can trust him and tells him she’s a woman. He promises to keep her secret and in return falls in love with her and steals away in the middle of the night and sleeps with her. Just after she finds out she is pregnant with his child, he is killed in a battle.

Rosemarie