How Nancy Drew Saved My Life
You know, none of this ever would have happened, were it not for that Maureen Dowd column in the New York Times. After all, it's not like grown women over the age of twenty think very much about Nancy Drew, is it? Besides which,as a young girl,I'd not been much of a Nancy Drew fan. Sure, I'd seen the shelves of her books in the libraries and bookstores I frequented whenever I got the chance,but she'd seemed so other-timely,outdated,so retro in a way that would never be fashionable again.
At least that's what I thought.
Anyway, the article had one of those oblique angles, as these things so often do, but it was generally about Iraq and the Osama bin Laden Presidential Daily Briefings. The tiein with Nancy Drew was that we really needed someone brash and intrepid like her involved, and questioned where all the brash and intrepid people had gone.
As for me, at the age of twenty-three, I no longer felt brash and intrepid, since events had conspired to rob me of those feelings.
I had committed the cardinal sin of many a young woman before me, something Nancy Drew would never do: I had fallen in ... read full excerpt from: How Nancy Drew Saved My Life ebook
