Uttered by my hostess Laura, in her kitchen in Berkeley, San Francisco, looking at the cakes we had brought to add to the dinner table that evening, before I went to tell stories at her husband's school the next day.
It made me turn round and ask "are you from Michigan?" (Missouri as it turns out).
The giveaway? The midwestern F[e]ncy made her so much like Miss Janssen that even my english ear couldn't miss it.
So unexpected.
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Kat, I thought of you today while Karen and I were telling at University School. We were in the first grade classroom and I turned to look at their bookshelf and I saw "Fancy Nancy tea party." Fancy Nancy is series of story books about a little girl who, as it always says on the first page, "was unfortunately the only fancy one in the family." She's always decked out in bows and glitter and tutus. She is "fancy" in every way.
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