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list. “Okay, we’ll get al this stuff last. Let’s look
    around first. How about the jewelry store?”
    “Um, okay,” Jill replied reluctantly. She folded the list slowly and slid it back
    into the pocket of her jeans.
    In the jewelry store, Sunny ran to a case of pierced earrings. “Maybe I’ll
    get another couple of holes in one of my ears,” she said.
    “Another couple of holes?” I replied.
    “Sure. They can do that here. See that stool? That’s where you sit for ear-
    piercing…or navel-piercing.”
    “Navel-piercing!” I exclaimed.
    “Ew,” said Jil .
    “You are not getting your navel pierced,” I said. “Or getting extra holes.
    You have enough holes already. Why don’t you just buy some more earrings?
    Here. Look at these. These are cute.”
    “I guess,” agreed Sunny. “But I want something a little…I don’t know…
    wilder. Like these.”
    “Those?” I said. “They’re just plain gold hoops.”
    “They are eyebrow rings,” said Sunny.
    “Ew,” Jill said again.
    “Maybe we’ve looked long enough in here,” said Maggie. “Let’s go to the
    pet store. I need some supplies.”
    “Goody, we can look at kittens!” exclaimed Jil .
    Sunny rolled her eyes.
    I pulled her aside. “Sunny,” I whispered, “quit doing that, okay? Please?
    Jil is going to see you. Let’s just have a nice afternoon.”
    Sunny’s response was to roll her eyes again. “Tsk.”
    “What is wrong?” I said, exasperated. And then I caught myself. “Is it your
    mother?” I whispered.
    Sunny turned away from me. “We can talk about it later.”
    “Okay,” I said, putting my arm around her shoulder.
    We hurried out of the jewelry store and caught up with Maggie and Jill,
    who were heading into World of Pets.
    “What supplies do you need?” I asked Maggie.
    “Let me see. Fish food, a water bottle for Cosmo’s cage, a new bell toy for
    Curtis, and – you won’t believe this – tartar-control dry food and a feline
    toothbrush for Herman.”
    I started to giggle. “What?” I said.
    Maggie was laughing too. “I took Herman to the vet yesterday after school
    and he’s developing gingivitis. So I am supposed to brush his teeth every other
    day.”
    “You can really buy toothbrushes for cats?” I asked.
    “Apparently.”
    “Wow. What does your mom think of al this?”
    “Oh, who knows. All she cares about is where her next pairs of shoes is
    coming from. I think she and her friends must be having some sort of contest to
    see who can buy the most expensive clothes. And Dad thinks I’m crazy , of
    course. He says when he was my age he had already started making films.
    Amateur ones, but still. He can’t believe I want to be a vet. Oh, look. Feline
    toothbrushes.”
    Sure enough. There they were. Maggie tossed one into her basket, which
    already held the fish food, water bottle, and bel toy. Then she added a couple of dog toys and a box of catnip. Maggie has unlimited money, but you never know it
    except for when she’s generous to the rest of us – and to her pets.
    “Where are Sunny and Jil ?” Maggie asked a few minutes later. “Are they
    together somewhere?”
    “I don’t know. They’re not a good combination, are they?”
    “Not lately.”
    I glanced around the store. Sunny and Jill were standing side by side,
    looking into a cage full of hamsters. Like old times.
    Like last month.
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    Well, I have to leave for Jill’s soon, but I haven’t finished writing about the
    mall trip. So I’ll add some more here, before Carol takes Sunny and me over to
    Jil ’s.
    After World of Pets we looked in a couple of clothing stores and then Jill
    insisted we go into this one store called The Bear Necessities. I’d never seen it
    before, but Jil seemed intimate with it. It was ful of – guess what – teddy bears.
    And accessories for teddy bears and things with teddy bears on them and books
    about teddy bears and kits for making teddy bears. There was also a