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From Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Mercedes's obvious success at camp pointed to Coco's failure to care
well for Mercedes herself.  Mercedes seemed to intuit this and began
to revise her camp experience, proclaiming as boring activities that
hours earlier she'd loved.  She downplayed the importance of her new
friends.  She denounced her accomplishments, just as her mother had at
Thorpe, when she was on the brink of striking out on her own.
Mercedes swore she was never going back to the awful camp.  Then, like
a tittering schoolgirl, she called her counselor, Beth, with whom
she'd been affectionate, "fatso" in Spanish.  Coco laughed heartily.
"I know I shoudln't," she said, but she did, covering her mouth.
		-- p. 274

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