Was It Something I Said Author:Jean Thesman Reaching for the moon... — The trouble with me is I'm too short, so kids don't take me seriously--especially boys. Like Mitch, the 6'2" guy next door. I'm crazy about him, but he doesn't seem to notice me. My best friend Anne says I should just be myself...but I decided to work on a brand-new sophisticated me--shorter hai... more »r, older look, stretching myself taller. Only Anne kind of gummed that idea when she got sick and asked me to do her oracle bit at the school fair. Somehow I knew that wearing a disguise and telling fortunes wouldn't exactly fit my new image, but I did it anyway. How could I know that making predictions in public would change my own future in some pretty weird--and important--ways?« less