5. She doesn’t care for gold jewelry.

1. She can really chop garlic.

2. She can move furniture.

3. She has a nice figure.

4  Did I mention she can chop garlic?

Dear Rachel,

Being a bell ringer for The Salvation Army is nothing to brag about. You’re lame.

Ami

!. He hates the smell of banana in a hot car.

2. One of his most traumatic childhood memories was the time he dropped his Hostess Snowball in the sand at a beach, rendering it inedible. It would be great if I could stop there, if the traumatic part was that Ethan lost his delicious snack cake to the beach. But that’s not what was so upsetting to him. His father’s reaction to his frantic attempts to salvage the confection is what burned the incident into his mind.

As Ethan concentrated on brushing the sand away from the unfortunately chosen treat, his father towered above him shaking his head in disapproval. Had it been any other treat—a Twinkie, a Ding Dong, a Home Run pie—the sand would have come off with ease. But this was a Snowball. The sand had embedded itself in between each little chunk of red sugar, and Ethan’s father was sickened by the desperation with which his son tried to save the delicious snack.