I had trouble articulating how I felt after reading this post—just, it’s lovely, and almost made me cry. Beverly Cleary’s work means so much to me.

That’s how we lived back then. Like ANIMALS. ANIMALS I tell you.

lol amazing pic! :)

I'm sure the taxpayers are glad the police have their best interests in mind by not letting any of them use their phones for brief long-distance calls.

Plus, couldn’t the police, I dunno, UNLOCK HER CAR DOOR FOR HER? I mean, I know they are determined to be unhelpful in many instances, but really, dudes.

I’m so glad someone stood up for you, but OF FUCKING COURSE your boss didn’t believe it until a dude confirmed it independently for him.

I hope she still has that dress because it is slamming.

The police wouldn’t let her make a long distance phone call????? WTF? In my head, I know that the only person responsible for her death is that terrible man, but that part really upsets me and just makes me wonder what if.

Yeah, way to protect and serve the community.

Cox locked herself out of her car and walked to a nearby gas station to phone her boyfriend to bring her a spare; the police wouldn’t allow her to make a long-distance call from the station.

After Cox vanished, her mother, Jan Bynum, was left to raise her daughter Alexis, who is now older than Cox was when she disappeared.

I’m so glad that her family finally has answers, although the answers are really shitty. There can’t be anything worse than just not knowing.

To paraphrase the Holocaust “survivor” Eli Weisel, author of the iconic memoir “Night,” in his response to a woman who expressed her guilt at feeling sad and depressed over trivial things, as her suffering could never match Weisel’s, he essentially told her this...”we all have our own pain, which fills us to the brim.…

or finally catching a buzz after your ninth wine cooler that you had to play “Hey Mister” to procure...

Exactly. What is with all these elaborate excuses for drinking. I’m starting to think kids these days don’t even understand alcohol.

OH MY GOD THE ZIMA

Or having to make due with Zima.

or, just drinking jack daniels down home punch (mini bottles) cuz that’s all we could find. then we fell asleep in the basement and then woke up and went home.

or like, drinking behind PathMark.

If these kids are bright enough to come up with such a complex game, how are they still stupid enough to think this is in any way acceptable?