seventeen...

Wow. Seventeen won't seem old when I'm forty, but it seems old now. I could go watch an R-rated movie right now if I watched them and if I went to movies on Sundays.
My mom's being really mean today. I guess it's not some rule that people should be nice to you on your birthday, but it would be nice.

Look at me, alive, seventeen. Wow. Some cicadas stay underground for seventeen years before they crawl to the surface to live for a day in the sun, and then die.