About Me

Hi, I'm Harper Lee Simmons. It's pronounced Har-peh, because my dad's from the south. He's a foreign service agent from the US; my mom's a professor from Morocco. I grew up dividing my time between Rabat, Casablanca, and the countryside, with occasional trips to France. (I speak Arabic, French, and, yes, English.) I was born in Morocco but spent my first year or two in the States to get some fancy medical treatments. Mom and I and my brother and sister usually hang out at home while Dad's away on business. I have a younger brother, Will, and a younger sister, Charlotte. Dad named us all after his "heroes of literature": Nelle Harper Lee, William Shakespeare, and Charlotte Bronte. Mom and us kids are Muslim and Dad's a Baptist. He met my mother on an assignment and hasn't been able to get his heart away from Morocco since. Now I'm in the States attending a boarding school. I got detained after a fifty-state whirlwind tour, probably because of my religion. Living at "home" has been difficult to adjust to, but I'm getting there. With some help from my wonderful teacher and new friends, my United States citizenship has become something tangible. Oh, and I'm a poet. Yeah, I might not be your typical American Girl... but I think that's something I can live with.

14 April 2006

Sisters, Writing School

Sisters
Samantha asks have you seen The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Yes, I say
I read about it online
And I made the bookstore owner order it for me
I had to remind him five times
But it finally arrived
And the next one
And the next
And I fell in love
And I wanted a sisterhood of my own

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Writing School
Samantha writes letters to her dead mum
Kira and Linsi do the newspaper
Marie and Molly write songs
Kailey writes stories
It seems like a writing school
I write poetry
I fit in

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