The Blonde of the Joke

Résumé

A blonde and a brunette walk into a bar.

No, wait.

Okay, so a blonde and a brunette show up at the Pearly Gates, and Saint Peter-- no, not that one, either.

Okay, so a blonde and a brunette go to the mall and... oh, forget it.

If there's one thing I've learned lately it's that jokes are not funny. At least, they're never funny in the way they're meant to be. I once knew a girl who thought all jokes were funny, but it turned out she was laughing at the wrong parts. Sometimes, now, I wonder what it must be like to look at the world that way. To be able to ignore one punch line and see a different one where it never even existed. I mean, I guess it must be useful. I guess it must be beautiful.

Okay, here we go. Knock-knock. Who's there? Ima. Ima who? Ima going to tell you a joke. It's the first day of school and a blonde walks into a classroom

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"From the very first day Val meets the outrageously blond Francie, she realizes that Francie has the gutsy courage and determination Val has always envied. But Francie sees something in Val too—something that Val's never noticed. "You've got that sneaky thing about you," she says. "I bet you have a dark past."

And just like that, the blonde and the brunette become partners in crime.

Thanks to Francie, Val is suddenly taking risks, taking charge, and taking what she deserves. But as the stakes get higher, Francie and Val find themselves more and more tangled in a thrilling web of love, lies, and shoplifting. Soon it becomes clear that the darkest secrets have yet to be discovered. . .