I never cry said Pippi astrid lindgren pippi longstocking
one I hate it when Mom calls me sensitive I’m a guy I’m almost a teenager I can’t be a twelve year-old boy and sensitive at the same time That’s not possible But as I stood in that crowd not a single face familiar to me for as far as I could see my lifeline cut fear making my knees weak and my heart pounding like a basketball rattling hard inside a hoop I knew she was right on the mark I was alone I had never been so alone And I had never been so frightened in all my life 1