When Martha was 13, she needed a dress for the semi-formal.

So she went shopping with her mom.

Dear diary, I saw some dresses.

I tried them on.

I thought they'd be big in the tits, but they weren't.

Mom says, my price limit is $100.

I say, fuck you, mom.

That's Martha reading about her semi-formal shopping trip with her mom.

And this, well, this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.

I'm Dan Meisner. Grownups read things they wrote as kids. I'm Dan Meisner.

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids is a live open mic event where brave adults get up on stage to share diaries, poetry, creative writing assignments, and all sorts of weird and wonderful childhood and teenage writing.

This time recorded live at the Garrison in Toronto.

We have teenage make-out fantasies financial advice from a nine-year-old.

And we find out what it's like to be friend dumped.

Twice.

This stuff is funny and awkward and sometimes a little bittersweet.

But looking back at who we used to be can help us figure out who we are today.

So think about the stuff you wrote when you were a kid,

and stick around.

Our first reader, Jason, described himself as a pretty dramatic gay teen, and he chronicled those pretty

dramatic years in his journal. Here's Jason on stage in Toronto. Hi, guys. So this first entry was a

personal journal, and I wrote it when I was 12 years old in 1985. I have just been deeply

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