Vampire Kisses

Chapter 2: Dullsville

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The official welcome sign to my town should read, "Welcome to Dullsville--bigger than a cave, but small enough to feel claustrophobic!"

A population of 8,000 look-a-likes, a weather forecast that's perfectly miserable all year round--sunny--fenced in cookie-cutter houses, and sprawling farmland--that's Dullsville.

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The 8:10 freight train that runs through town separates the wrong side of the tracks from the right side, the cornfields from the golf course, the tractors from the golf carts.

I think the town has it backward. How can land that grows corn and wheat be worth less than land filled with sand traps?

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The hundred-year-old courthouse sits on the town square.

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I haven't gotten into enough trouble to be dragged there--yet.

Boutiques,

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a travel agent,

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a computer store,

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a florist,

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and a second-run movie theater -

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all sit happily around the square.

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I wish our house could lie on the railroad tracks, on wheels, and carry us out of town, but we're on the right side near the country club. Dullsville.

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The only exciting place is an abandoned mansion an exiled baroness built on top of Benson Hill, where she died in isolation.

I have only one friend in Dullsville--a farm girl, Becky Miller, who is more unpopular than I am. I was in third grade when I officially met her.