5- 160354 This passage describes the writer's experience of
It wouldn't be long before there was tape down the
middle of the cafeteria, dividing it in two. If you weren't
thirteen, you dared not enter the thirteen-year-old side. If
you tried, the lip-gloss army would hurl you back.
-"I'm Not Thirteen Yet,"
Amy Bernstein
walking across the cafeteria,
O feeling unaccepted by the thirteen-year-olds.
wearing lip gloss for the first time.
O being accepted by the thirteen-year-olds.