Tessie D

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Here’s a fun fact about me: my last name is Despare. (I probably shouldn’t be telling the whole world my name, but I don’t think anyone is going to read this anyway.) Anyway, I learned over the weekend that my family goes back all the way to the Alamo. I was with Daddy getting breakfast…

I suppose you might be wondering why I’m choosing to sit in the library at lunch instead of sitting outside with friends. It’s not that I don’t have friends — because I do. But even though we moved here when I was eight years old, I still don’t always feel like I fit in. It’s…

Hello, out there… I suppose I should continue to tell you more about myself. I’m in Texas. If you drew a dot in the dead center of the state — the part in the middle, away from any city, where it looks like nobody would live — that’s where I’m at. There’s a small town…

My name is Tessie, and I live in a small town in the middle of Nowhere, Texas, with my mom, my dad, and my younger sister, Annie. We moved here when I was in the third grade after Daddy retired from the Army. Momma and Daddy used the money Grandaddy Bud left us to buy…

Welcome to my online diary. My name is Tessie. 

I’ve been at the dairy for a little over a month now. The work isn’t hard, and I enjoy it. The office gets a little lonely in the afternoons after I’ve gotten all my work done for the day. The good news is that I’ve been able to read a lot in the afternoons, and…

I didn’t go home for Christmas. I was going to. I’d planned on it and was looking forward to spending a few days with Momma, Daddy, and Annie. I called Momma on Wednesday night to talk about the holiday, but as soon as she answered the phone, I could tell something was off from the…