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of him did cross her mind).
    It wasn’t friend , either.
    The word Madison had thought of was the one that honored the person who had just that very moment made her feel truly hopeful about the coming weeks: Dad . Although he had been gone earlier that day, Dad had still come through (as usual) for Madison. Of course, it had to be Dadddd, since the password needed to be at least six characters long.
    She quickly typed up her brief profile and added her first official blog entry before drifting off to sleep.
Name: MadFinn
    Country: United States
    State: Florida (right now n e way)
    Gender: Female
    Favorite color: Orange
    Interests: Computers, reading, playing flute, animals, esp. cute pugs!!!
    Expertise: Worrying (& missing my BFFs!)
    08-08
    Ta Da! I can’t believe it but I really have my own blog page. You always told me I should do this, Aim. Dad showed me how & it’s so E-Z. So now we ALL have to do it and then it will be like we’re having a slumber party long distance from California to NY to Florida and all the way to England. I didn’t do much today except get a suntan and walk on the beach BUT it’s way cool because I collected all these shells. I decided that while I’m here I want to make you each something. I’m thinking about just the right thing. My camp starts tomorrow. I’m clueless about that. HELP! What r u doing wherever u r? Write yr own page sooner than soon. Miss you more than n e thing.
    It was a short entry, but it said all the right stuff. Madison hit SAVE BLOG and shut off the laptop.
    She fell asleep hoping that by the following afternoon her BFFs would add their own blogs to the mix. She also couldn’t wait to tell Bigwheels about the blog page, since Bigwheels had had her page up for months.
    Soon Madison Francesca Finn would be back in touch not only with her friends, but with her old self again.
    The next morning, Stephanie was in the kitchen making more coffee. Madison could smell it brewing. She glanced at the alarm clock on her nightstand, one of the old-fashioned wind-up kind. She’d forgotten to set it. But that didn’t matter. She was up.
    The first day of Camp Sunshine was here, but all Madison could think about doing was checking her brand-new blog again.
    When she opened the page, Madison saw that it had already been read twice. She guessed the identity of the reader, which was confirmed when she saw a posted message from Aimee.
    Madison clicked on a posted link to Aimee’s new blog page.
Name: BalletGrl
    Country: United States
    State: NY
    Gender: Female
    Favorite color: Purple or pink or anything pretty
    Interests: Ballet and dance
    Expertise: ???
    08-08 (late)
    This is the best idea on the planet, Maddie. You deserve a big round of applause (<><><>)—that was hands clapping—I just made that up! :>) So Far Hills is Xactly the same as when you three left. Except that it was supposed to thunderstorm today, which is cool since it’s been too hot l8ly. I have not much to report fm here xcept that everyone is spending most of their time (as far as I can tell) FRYING by the town pool. Major hottie alert: that kid who just moved in down the street from you, Maddie; he looks cuter than ever. OMG. But I don’t have time for boys NEmore except Ben Buckley. LOL. Seriously, I have already had one intense day of dancing since u left. And I GOT THE SOLO!!! Madame said I showed great progress esp. on pointe. Isn’t that good?! FYI: when I was coming out of rehearsal yesterday I saw none other than Ms. Poison Ivy the Terrible on the sidewalk and she was alone (i.e., just parents and no drones) and she actually said HELLO to me. I almost passed out but figured she might think I had a real heart attack or something LOL. OK. So here’s more big news 4 you: my dad is expanding his cyber bookstore. I guess that’s not really a big deal 2 anyone but me & my family, but I wanted to share. Oh, and I also wanted to say that Lindsay prob. won’t get her blog started right away. She called