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Girl talk
LIFE WASNT ALWAYS so regal for Meg
Cabot The author of The Princess Diaries
moved from small-town Indiana to New 7 York
City as a young woman, and she cried every day
for the first three weeks because people there
seemed so mean to her.
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In an exclusive chat, the author of The Princess Diaries discusses the theme
of her new book small-town vs. big-city life with two teen girls.
Cabot used her fish-iea i/-out-of-water experi
ence in her new book. Jinx, which takes an lowa
teen named Jean nicknamed “Jinx” because of
her bent for trouble and inserts her into Man
hattan’s Upper East Side, where she doesn’t fit in
with her rich cousin and becomes enamored of the
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To explore life in a small
town vs. the big city, Cabot chat
ted with two teens exclusively
for USA WEEKEND Magazine.
Charlotte Christman-Cohen,
14, a freshman at Horace
Mann School, lives on the Up
per East Side of New York
City and attended the Fashion j
Institute of Technology this ;
summer. Her Midwestern coun
terpart, Monica Hemingway,
13, is an Bth grader at South
East Junior High in lowa City.
She likes math, science and
writing.
Here's the girl talk...
# Author Meg Cabot: Is your personality
determined by where you live?
Charlotte from Manhattan: It’s what you’re
used to growing up. I’m used to being in the
city 7 and walking outside my door and seeing all
these buildings.
Monica from Iowa: Some of my friends have lived in the city their
whole life, and they’re all snobbish and everything because
they’re used to fighting for their way. And sometimes people who
are like me, coming from the country, they’re more like [the book
character] Jean: farm fresh and country sweet.
• Cabot: What happens when people find out where you're from?
Charlotte: People are always so, like, “You live in Manhattan! Do
you live on Fifth Avenue?” Not everyone lives on Fifth Avenue.
It’s so different: 14th Street looks very different than 88th Street.
Monica: People who find out I’m from lowa are, like, “Really? Be
cause you act so much like a big-city girl.” When I tell them I used
to live on a farm, they’re, like, “Oh, well, do your friends take ad
vantage of you? I know a lot of country girls are loyal to a fault.”
• Cabot: Let's talk about drugs in schools.
Charlotte: There isn’t much at my school, but there are some scan
dalous rumors about kids who go outside of school and do [drugs
and alcohol]. It’s a big New York City thing... on the weekends.
Monica: A lot of people go against the rule and smoke inside school
boundaries. It’s ideally disgusting.
• Cabot: Have you ever had a crush on a boy someone else liked?
Charlotte: In my school, there are only a few boys who are what
you would call “normal.” So everyone always likes these same four
guys. It causes so much drama. C 3
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