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Sure, Mom came here as a camper, and she and Dad met here (he was the Water Sports instructor and she was a coun- selor). What she goes through with Duncan is definitely enough. (Notice how she’s gotten a job, instead of just staying at home, lying out and reading magazines for three months.) I don’t want this stupid summer internship or whatever to take some kind of serious toll on her. Calla actually got an ulcer when she was in seventh grade-which, hello? What twelve-year-old gets an ulcer, except my sister? Graduating and finalizing everything to attend Smith in the fall has chilled her out a little, but she’s never going to get rid of that need-to-please thing she’s got going on. This is what worries me about this summer. I know Calla’s stoked to be working at camp, and that she admires Deena and practically wants to be her, but my sis- ter has a tendency to get really cranked about things on this crazy-maniacal level, internalizing any kind of even minor criti- cism and then working twice as hard to overcompensate for what might be perceived as a mistake. When Deena introduces Calla as the new office assistant it makes more sense, her hovering, but I still wish she didn’t look quite so eager. The summer of firsts and lasts pretty control-freaky boss.
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