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The Long Secret

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The Long Secret	comment	The Long Secret is a 1965 book by Louise Fitzhugh, written as a sequel to Harriet the Spy.Someone has been leaving disturbing notes all over the quiet little beach town of Water Mill, and Harriet is determined to find out who. In her efforts to catch the culprit, she drags her friend Beth Ellen, introduced in Harriet the Spy, into all kinds of odd and embarrassing situations.
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The Long Secret / int_1153199	type	Fat and Proud
The Long Secret / int_1153199	comment	Fat and Proud: Mama Jenkins is huge and sees nothing wrong with the way she looks.
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The Long Secret / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Long Secret / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: The mysterious notes tend to be quotes from The Bible. Zeeney's equally obnoxious husband, Wallace, gets a note that reads, "You need more pull to get a rich man into heaven than to get a camel through the eye of a needle."
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The Long Secret / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
The Long Secret / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: Jessie Mae is thin, while Norman has "a round blob of a body with a round freckled face stuck on top".
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The Long Secret / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Long Secret / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Norman, Jessie Mae, and their younger sister Magnolia live with their mother, Mama Jenkins. No mention is made of their father.
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The Long Secret / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Long Secret / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Beth Ellen's father simply got up and left one day and never came back (possibly to get away from Zeeney). Zeeney herself is a traveling lady of leisure who long ago left Beth Ellen to be raised by her grandparents. In this book, however, Zeeney visits, and Beth Ellen is not happy to see her.
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The Long Secret / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Long Secret / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Harriet is shown to be much closer to her parents than she was in Harriet the Spy, even having a conversation with her father about belief in God.
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The Long Secret / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Long Secret / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Norman Jenkins, who eats three quarts of ice cream every day, much to the disapproval of his twin sister, Jessie Mae.
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The Long Secret / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
The Long Secret / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Zeeney, in the words of Harriet's father, "never thinks about anything but clothes and men and money". She expects Beth Ellen to have Acceptable Feminine Goals and, when Beth Ellen says she wants to go to college and pursue a career as an artist instead of marrying a rich man, throws a fit, naming Harriet's mother (who is married to her ex-boyfriend) as a bad influence on her and Harriet.
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The Long Secret / int_74463f7f	type	"Anger Is Healthy" Aesop
The Long Secret / int_74463f7f	comment	"Anger Is Healthy" Aesop: Shy and meek Beth Ellen is often told by her old-fashioned grandmother that to be a lady, she mustn't get angryâ€”that she must remain composed at all times. Near the end of the book (after Beth Ellen throws an epic tantrum on learning that Zeeney, her Rich Bitch mother, wants to take her from her home to Europe), her grandmother walks back on this advice, saying that she should never be afraid to express how she feels, even if it's anger. It's implied that her earlier inability to express herself (particularly her anger) is the reason that she turned out to be the leaver of the hurtful notes.
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The Long Secret / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
The Long Secret / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: Beth Ellen is normally shy and meek, but when Zeeney wants to take to her live in Europe, she throws an epic tantrum. This is shown to be a key to the "long secret" itself, and it's revealed that she's been the one leaving the notes.
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The Long Secret / int_9588c44b	type	First Period Panic
The Long Secret / int_9588c44b	comment	First Period Panic: Beth Ellen, on getting her first period, thinks she's sick. It doesn't help that her well-meaning but old-fashioned grandmother tells her a myth about rocks in one's body that cause menstruation. Fortunately, Janie happens to be visiting Water Mill and tells Beth Ellen how menstruation actually works.
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The Long Secret / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Long Secret / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Harriet has long been curious about the Shark's Tooth Inn, the slightly rundown hotel in Water Mill. She overhears a phone conversation between Bunny, the lounge pianist (who's also the manager) and the owner, and realizes that the owner is Mrs. Plumber, the rich crazy lady she used to spy on in Harriet the Spy. Mrs. Plumber appears later and ends up getting a colossal "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Bunny for her control-freak attitude.
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The Long Secret / int_f8b893e5	type	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
The Long Secret / int_f8b893e5	comment	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Mama Jenkins plans to get rich off her new invention: a toe medicine made of watermelons and several secret ingredients. It's never stated whether she actually manages to sell this medicine.
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The Long Secret / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Long Secret / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Zeeney and Wallace, when driving to the Shark's Tooth Inn, zoom down the road at a hundred miles per hour, narrowly missing a milk truck at one point, then plunge through the inn's gates and onto the lawn.
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