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Somebody tapped me on my shoulder, I turned and
saw a familiar face ___1___
me. However, I could not tell ___2___
she was.
"It's me, Maybelline. We were from the ___3___
secondary school, remember ?" the girl said. I
stared intently ___4___
her heavily made-up face. Maybelline ? Suddenly,
something clicked
___5___ my brain.
"It's you ! I almost couldn't ___6___
you. You look so ___7___
now," I said.
'Different' was ___8___
understatement. She ___9___
to be a plain girl in pigtails when we sat together
in the same class. Now she ___10___
of perfume and ___11___
expensive clothes. Her shoes were four inches ___12___
. I had ___13___
from some of my friends that she worked ___14___
a singer in a club. I could tell from her ___15___
that she smoked. I felt uncomfortable before this
sophisticated person and did not ___16___
how to act naturally.
Fortunately for me, she was in a ___17___
to go. Her boyfriend was ___18___
for her, she said. As I watched her walk ___19___
, I wondered what had happened to the simple,
easy-going Gertrude I had once known. I ___20___
I did not know this Maybelline at all.
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