I admit it. I kept a sketch diary that chronicled my lame adventures during my high school years.

They were nothing special, just quickly doodled comic strips full of inside you-had-to-be-there jokes. For instance, look at the third page—that bubble with the cotton swab after Annalisa called me a dweeb? Yes, I know that doesn’t make sense, but I honestly thought it was funny back then; every time I heard the word “dweeb,” I would think of Q-tip cotton swabs, and it made me laugh. So into the sketch diary it went.

What a dork.

Other things to note:

• Dialogue was color-coded, and the color depended on the person’s birth month.
  (Jenny and Annalisa were both born in January.)
• The Undeniables was a name that either Jenny or Samantha came up with for the four of us; it was based, I think, on the name of some perfume.
  (Jenny and Samantha were also part of another perfume-based group called The Untouchables, the third and final member of which was Rina.)
• Jenny, Annalisa, and Samantha were all dressed alike because they were all wearing Samantha’s clothes.
• I was always the driver on these outings, yet I never knew where I was going; I depended almost entirely upon everyone else’s directions and eyes.
• I never wore perfume.

So with no further ado:

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