mad maddie:	YO, ANGELA, I'VE JOINED THE COLLEGE GIRL RANKS AT LAST!
mad maddie:	do I get my special beret now?
SnowAngel:	Maddie! my Cali girl!
SnowAngel:	rock on, UC Santa Cruz. you so smexy!
mad maddie:	girl, I will hit you on the head with a frying pan if you call me smexy. gross! boo!
mad maddie:	but. California. SO FRICKIN GORGEOUS.
mad maddie:	the sky is so blue and the forest is everywhere and there is sunshine sunshine sunshine, and I LOVE IT.
SnowAngel:	we have the sky and the sun in Georgia too, dumdum. and! omg! we also have s!
mad maddie:	is different here. is stunning. so are the students, as apparently it is the law that all California kids must have good genes. I might have to dye my hair blond.
SnowAngel:	yr hair is already blond
mad maddie:	eh, fair enough
SnowAngel:	so weird that yr JUST NOW starting the semester. do you realize that I've been at UGA for over a month? and that Zoe's been at Kenyon for almost as long???
mad maddie:	why, yes, Angela, I do realize that.
mad maddie:	do you think I've lived in a time bubble for the last four weeks? do you think I wanted to stay in AtlantaâIN MY PARENTS' HOUSE, WITH MY PARENTS WHO STILL USE TV TRAYS SO THEY CAN EAT TOTINO'S FROZEN PIZZA WHILE WATCHING “FAMILY GUY”âwhile you and Z were off having Adventure Time in your sparkly new lives?
SnowAngel:	aw, now. I'm sure yr parents heat up the pizza before eating it, silly.
mad maddie:	you'd be surprised
SnowAngel:	but seriously. it's like Zoe and I are college grads, practically, while you're still a wee freshman. pats wee Maddie on her blondie head uses wee voice look at you, wearing yr big girl college beret!
mad maddie:	hey, you need to be nice to me. the flight to California was five hours longâand the whole time I was strapped in next to a man who watched episode after episode of “House Hunters” on his tablet WITHOUT HEADPHONES.
SnowAngel:	“House Hunters” normal or “House Hunters International”?
mad maddie:	he was on a plane full of other ppl. how cld he not know to wear headphones? I kept wanting to say something to him, but I didn't. and then I kept hoping that one of the flight attendants wld say something to him, but none of them did! ever!!!
SnowAngel:	I like “House Hunters,” even tho the couple already knows which house they're going to buy before the show is filmed. did u know that?
mad maddie:	nope, and while I love you, I don't really care.
mad maddie:	but I did some thinking on my long-ass flight and I had a very brilliant realization that I wld like to share with you.
mad maddie:	you know the expression “you only live once”?
SnowAngel:	as in yolo? lifts eyebrows
SnowAngel:	no, never heard of it. just like the ten-year-old my sister babysits has never heard of it, and just like my grandmother has never heard of it.
mad maddie:	har har har
mad maddie:	you and me and Zoe, we've all gone our own ways and we're spread out all over the country and we're, like, growing up and shit.
SnowAngel:	“growing up and shit.” You've gone all sophisticated, college girl.
mad maddie:	but just cuz we're growing up doesn't mean we have to grow apart.
SnowAngel:	Maddie, that's so corny! you're so adorable!!!
mad maddie:	and with that in mind, I have a plan for keeping us together.
SnowAngel:	does it include finishing my business hw for me? cuz shocking as it is, I wld actually NOT like to weigh in on how modern control theory is used in evaluating economic conditions.
SnowAngel:	MY BUSINESS CLASS IS SOOOOOO BORING!
mad maddie:	*I feel for you. back to what I* was saying. I just think we shldâ**
mad maddie:	shit
SnowAngel:	you think we should shit?
mad maddie:	my orientation leader is calling everyone over for a group activity. I've gotta go.
SnowAngel:	hold on. you think we shld what?
mad maddie:	tell ya later. will call as soon as I can.
SnowAngel:	don't use drugs! drugs make you stoopid! that's what the orientation person's going to tell you!
mad maddie:	kk, I won't. don't u either!