Rachel Cohn

The great wish of my adolescence was to be diagnosed with scoliosis. Then I would be like Deenie. I LOVED the book Deenie by Judy Blume. I wanted to look like Deenie; I wanted her disease; I even wanted to live in Deenie's town–Elizabeth, New Jersey–which was a short hop from my ultimate dream destination: New York City. Although now that I live in Manhattan as an adult (with a fairly normal spine, I'm told), Elizabeth, New Jersey, is more known to me as the place with the long lines at IKEA instead of as the hometown of Deenie. Like Deenie... Read More