i'm probably never gonna forget that one girl from the church whose special interest was betty boop & i never knew it went that deep (or even was like that!) until i spent a few hours at her house & went like. ebony. why do you have so much betty boop? & she just smiled & three hours later i was finally going home (late parents) clutching pages from a betty boop notebook scrawled with fun facts from betty boop's wikipedia page & a deep respectful understanding of a girl who i had previously known as kinda mean & fussy about her hair. we became friends in high school bc she got real sick & my mother was her home teacher the school appointed but ma didn't understand the chemistry homework & i miraculously did while also being in ebony's actual chemistry class but like between the ages of like 13 (betty boop info pull) & 16 (chemistry) all i knew was this bitch loved a racy girl in black & white and so the fuck did i, now
also i've never forgotten that betty was originally a dog & her earrings are often a callback to puppy ears. honest to god
