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Begun by Jessica at age 10 and continued through to age 12 when enrolled at Cameron School in Burnaby, B.C.   Unfinished and unpublished.   1975-77.   Reproduced entirely in small capitals in accordance with the author's original manuscript including original punctuation, and spelling errors (marked*).


BY JESSICA

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NOVEL
(otherwise untitled)
NOTES

The following references were notes made in the original manuscript by Jessica during various edits.

1 Yes, but deleted from original
2 Corrected from an hour in original
3 line drawn through quite
4 As loud as possible crossed out and replaced with quite firmly then also crossed out
5 Replaced it
6 Replaced rush
7 Replaced annoyance
8 So much for going shopping deleted
9 Replaced Liss
10 Replaced Liss
11 Replaced 50
12 trying very hard not to lose control of her temper. deleted.
13 and deleted new sentence begun with She was.
14 replaced Mr.
15 still deleted
16 replaced to
17 deleted the once and her twice
18 I need help on my dinosaur project deleted
19 added and misspelled
20 Replaced sad
21 `gonna' originally in quotes
22 project scribbled over as if she'd had to look it up
23 baby added
24 Replaced Mrs., same misspelling
25 Jessica's mother's everyday pattern
26 Name unclear, replaced Mr.
27 Replaced Mr.
28 Corrected from goe
29 Corrected from Mr. Anderson then Mark
30 Replaced swung
31 and picked deleted
32 a pice* of deleted
33 the deleted
34 Replaced whispered
35 Corrected from answer
36 There was a round teak table at the time in Jessica's home with her mother.
37 look deleted
38 Corrected from Melissa
39 Melissa answered deleted
40 Corrected from write
41 "So that's it, well O.K." deleted
42 out deleted
43 Replaced let
44 over deleted
45 Corrected from Melissa alone
46 Corrected from on
47 Replaced No, and shut up I hate crybabys [sic]
48 we hate kidnappers deleted
49 Replaced cried
50 Replaced "Well, if it will get the stupid kid to shut up, alright!" he shouted.
51 Replaced kid
52 shut up deleted
53 Replaced civilized
54 Replaced Melissa
55 Changed from Would
56 and that would be that deleted
57 in deleted
58 It was an old car and deleted
59 for an/some idea deleted
60 her loud deleted
61 they coul deleted
62 stron deleted
63 white deleted
64 Replaced Jill
65 Replaced exclaimed
66 Replaced aloud
67 Replaced under her shirt
68 Replaced convenience
69 The man let Jill splash about for several minutes and then ordered her to come to the log. deleted
70 Replaced fine
71 in disgrace deleted
72 Replaced Patricia
73 Corrected from you
74 Replaced gentlmanly*
75 Replaced put in.
76 Lynn deleted
77 proudly deleted
78 Patricia then said "My middle name is Carolun you know." deleted
79 Replaced pretty
80 "I just did. deleted
81 agonized deleted
82 Unclear which intended
83 drop deleted
84 It deleted
85 replaced join their little friend.
86 Patricia deleted
87 faraway deleted
88 to use it deleted
89 in deleted
90 male deleted
91 changed from of
92 Replaced guys
93 Replaced said the man
94 Changed from scaresness*
95 Replaced and
96 Replaced proudly <BR> 97 Replaced make
98 Replaced could
99 Changed from Melissa
100 Replaced of
101 Replaced the younger girls
102 Replaced frightened
103 Replaced palm
104 Replaced three
105 by deleted
106 Replaced worried
107 Exclamation mark (!) deleted
108 Replaced giggled which had replaced quarreled
109 Jill fiddled deleted
110 large deleted
111 Changed from plural coconuts
112 tree and strong deleted
113 place deleted
114 as to Jill's deleted
115 Then the man cut his own coconut and deleted
116 too deleted
117 Corrected from us
118 Possibly derived from Kona in Hawaii where Jess had visited with her family at age 7.
119 pocket, placing it in her ear deleted
120 She left the other in her pocket. Now the man was still in his trunks and Melissa still in her under deleted
121 Repeated twice in original manuscript
122 the cave deleted
123 swin* deleted
124 Changed from acted
125 Replaced knees
126 Replaced vegetable; and deleted
127 Changed from plural (s deleted)
128 Replaced her
129 scenec* deleted
130 "Jan" deleted
131 was deleted
132 and pen deleted
133 going on deleted
134 she deleted
135 of deleted
136 wrote deleted
137 As deleted
138 now she knew deleted
139 him deleted
140 abou deleted
141 that of deleted
142 knocking deleted

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