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Gloria and I played a million variations of the same game. “Let’s be Pixie and Dixie.”

Dixie was a marginally better name. It sounded cute, which was part of the point, but it didn’t sound too shallow. You got the sense that Dixie was a bit more competent than Pixie.

Sometimes Pixie and Dixie were superheroines, with terrific animal sidekicks. It was implied that they were very glamorous, with various skimpy (yet tasteful) outfits. They had a lot of magic. They could speak and understand Animal. They could heal. I don’t remember them ever flying.

They were twins, of course.

Well, except for the times they were triplets with the invisible but powerful Trixie. Trixie was cool even before we read the Trixie Belden series. Then she was cool and could solve mysteries.

Trixie could do a lot of things that I couldn’t do. She could talk to strangers without stammering. She could beat up bullies. She was very fashionable. She was funny. She got Pixie and Dixie out of many a jam.

You would have really liked Trixie, I think.

Comments

John said…
I DO like Trixie.

Sounds like she can do a lot of the things you CAN do.

Can she deal with a rental office? A cosmetics clerk? Can she negotiate and mediate? Can she make me laugh out loud? Can she get you through the jam of a lifetime?

Yeah :-) Trixie is great. And she's my kind of fashionable, too.
Zinnia said…
Ophelia and Cordelia were much more sophisticated.

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