the gossip this is a true story the names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty mainly it's the story of laura and jean lauren jean were best friends they double dated together they studied together and often after school they went to the corner drugstore together the drugstore was a favorite hangout some of the kids drank cokes others read magazines and they all talked talking lots of fun except sometimes when you talk about long laura i've been thinking maybe for the next few days before your working on the nominating committee where maybe we shouldn't see each other quite so much are you afraid of what greeted thomson will say what health sometimes people like breda thompson can make a lot of people believe what she says oh gene don't be silly boy no one would dare say that you didn't deserve to be nominated for president  or you've worked harder than anyone in the club and who dependable and you make good grades and enjoyed just about the best friend a girl overheard but well let's not give frieda chance to do any talking groans alright but i sure hate to have to worry about what people will say so do i but you have to sometimes i guess  anything ever should come up about one of us lets us cried out get the facts no jumping to conclusions ok but i've never jump to conclusions about you after all you're my best friend i know but sometimes people are afraid of thompson can cause an awful lot of trouble between two good friends like us now do we all understand this is hoover's instructions thought we each have a candidate to could she help it we all know pretty well what genes qualifications will be we'll share i'm just saying i think it looks funny for laura to check on her best friend are you saying that or is frieda thompson saying to been made in there that now there's one more thing on this is who was instructions then can we go yes then you can go here it is remember girls we have to do a lot of talking about people in this office and he waited for you let's not jump to conclusions let's always get the facts yes laura i think jeanne would be a good choice for well look aura your genes best friend and you wouldn't be bringing in just playing golf is about or that somehow it just doesn't seem right gene to help people cheat on a quiz oh i don't know she makes pretty high grade mrs hoover said everything that said in this office things in this office and gina probably feel real bad that she's not on the ballot anyway so let's not make it any worse all right now about the other  we weren't supposed to talk about it out for the meeting and you weren't i don't understand i thought we were always going to get the facts before we jump to conclusions are i thought i had the facts but you did i thought you'd forgotten why should i forget i don't oh gee i'm a friendship bracelet how did you know i was once your best friend told me oh yeah for that change this well get out you know how i hate to shop for things for girls the clerks look at you so funny and everything which jane did all the shopping while i drove around she even wrapped it for me last night you know you know what else she did  atterson leaving next year and she and larry smith and some of the other kids arranging a farewell party for an oh and you're the lowdown on the great great mrs atterson third hour class seems to get us and bought a copy the test in the mimeograph room and started circulating it hey what's wrong with you look if that was a dirty deal about genes not getting on the fat ballot just tell me laura what's wrong w know nothing was wrong except that everything was wrong can are do anything to help you now that she sorted the facts from the gossip how can you tell the difference between fact and gossip what do you think