Dear Shirley, Earth Angel:

Well, Shirley, as I got to know her, does not obey social conventions. She evaluates those and decides for herself. She even researches the history of social conventions before deciding for herself. And so, she wears her hair short, wears casual clothes, shorts and t-shirts, values comfort in clothes vs fashion. Shirley loves science and so she has her mind set on pursuing a career in science. She cares about proper nutrition, keeping her body healthy and keeping in good physical shape, playing sports and exercising. She has her own spiritual beliefs that are different from her parents and from most of her peers, maybe even all of her high school peers!

Shirley dares to be different. She is a daring individual and so I admire her for being independent, daring, courageous, non-conventional.

* I hope you don’t mind, Shirley that I wrote about you in the third person, diverging from my own usual conventional writing to you.

anita