Sweet Valley Twins

My grandmother was a reader, and she and I would sit in the den with books and magazines, and any time we went to Cordova Mall, which at the time consisted of Gapers and Parisians before Dillard's.

If you know, you know, I would ask to go to Walden Books, and this was before Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble to see if the Sweet Valley Twins books came out.

Now, when we'd go to University Mall, If we were going Morrison's, we were going

straight through McCrae's, right?

Yeah.

So now they have Sweet Valley twins.

So for anyone in the audience that has maybe like a nine-year-old to, say, 13, Sweet Valley Twins is an excellent kind of go-between before they're ready for Sweet Valley High.

Maybe that's what I'm thinking

about then.

Maybe it was the Sweet Valley Twins.

That wasn't that when we were young.

It was just Sweet Valley High.

Why do you care?" And I just wanna ask them like, "Okay, well, what kids book would you like to compare this to?" Like, this isn't The Boxcar Children.

This isn't like Sweet Valley Twins.

Yeah.

Like what children's book- And even like- ... could you put in this class? It's, it's a...

It was such a contrast to what I knew as how we're supposed to be.

So when I started reading it, I went from reading like Sweet Valley High, Sweet Valley Twins to that.

And that was it for me.

I really, I found it just fascinating.

I was reading the Babysitter's

Club books and the Sweet Valley Twins.

And I want you to remember who you were when you were little, because that is for many people, not all.

People who experienced extreme trauma in their childhood often have trouble getting in touch with this part of themselves.