JOURNAL PUT THIS JOURNAL DOWN RIGHT NOW DO NOT TURN THE PAGE IT IS PRIVATE That definitely includes you Josephine Rosalie Altman You do NOT get to open this just because you're my big sister If you do not put it right back where you found it and walk away I will tell your whole grade that when you eat strawberries you get a rash on your tushy ii I AM NOT KIDDING Jo No IAM
Dearest spectacular Celie While your mother and I were out earlier she mentioned that you had asked for a new journal since you've already filled your last one So we stopped on our way home from my doctor's visit and picked this out for you I should buy something for you every day It never fails to lift my spirits Like this II Dark Spirits Lifting to Light I hope that you enjoy this journal How nice that the moments you describe in here will be forever available to you in these pages all my love granny
THIS DIARY BELONGS TO Celie Valentine Altman
Thursday December 2 I think I can stop being so worried about Granny's mind I ve been scared about it ever since she moved in a couple of weeks ago because she keeps forgetting things Like this morning when she couldn't remember the word for eggs And called them oval things from chickens THAT definitely scared me Since eggs is not a hard word But then I thought about it more And Irealized Jo forgot her math notebook in a classroom after school today which meant Mom and I had to wait FOREVER in the school lobby while she went back upstairs to find it And no one's worried about Jo's mind Plus Mom forgot to give me my bag lunch a few weeks ago when my class went to the Brooklyn Museum She was holding it when we got to school then she just left with it Mrs McElhaney had to buy me a lunch It was embarrassing But no one's worried about Mom's mind Also Dad tells me all the time to stay calm when Jo annoys me Try reminding yourself She s not an evil villain She's just my big sister But I never remember to do that And my mind
