Extraits

The young woman next to Elle offered her a piece of gum. "It's apple," she whispered, "my favorite."

"Thanks," Elle said, smiling. The girl next to her was unlike most of her classmates. She was pretty, with ivory skin and clear blue eyes. Plus she was sort of blonde, or could be, with some highlights.

"It all sounds like abracadabra to me!" the yound woman whispered again with a smile.

Elle looked at her neighbor curiously.

"What the hell is quasi in rem jurisdiction?" she wrote a note on a paper, which she passed to Elle.

"I don't know, sorry," Elle wrote back. "I skip this class a lot because of Gummi bears."

"I know. Isn't that gross? By the way, my name is Eugenia," was the response.

Elle laughed. This girl was alright.

"Most classes in law school were a torture. Civil Procedure class was all about cases in court. Anyone who could read and follow directions could understand Civil Procedure. You only had to memorize things for the exam.

Elle was reading her magazine when Professor Erie called on Ben to answer a question. He would be talking for the rest of the class. Elle was glad she'd brought the new Vogue."

"Elle handed her essay with her vision of the Blonde Legal Defense Fund (BLDF). Its mission would be to fight with anti-blonde discrimination. At the same time, it would be a law firm for blondes, run by blondes. The firm's interior design would feature great role models in history such as Marilyn Monroe, but not Madonna, since she is not a true blonde.

In her essay, Elle tried to explain the difference between a true blonde and a natural blonde. True blondes - natural or not - could be identified by their inner confidence. The BLDF would take cases of brunette discrimination too, but only those who were blonde at heart. For example, Madonna wasn't blonde at heart because no true blonde would ever go back to another hair color."