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Ramona Quimby would be age 69 or 70 now? I wonder how her life turned out. Maybe she was a teacher or librarian. Stayed on the west coast, I think, Oregon or northern California. She gardens; she watches MSNBC. Has a sweatshirt of a cat holding a bone, "I found this humerous"
I& #39;d like to think she had a few wild years in the 70s but probably not. 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Gesicht mit FreudentrĂ€nen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit FreudentrĂ€nen"> I& #39;m guessing she went to the University of Oregon and got married not long after.
I expect she has kids and grandkids. She& #39;s a fun grandma. She was never very good at cooking or baking (unlike Beezus), so doesn& #39;t bother with that anymore. Sometimes she goes to the Whopperburger all by herself. A little treat.
And what happened to Beezus?! I have a feeling she had a slightly harder time in life. She is now a bit more like Olive Kitteridge.
I cannot be the only one who wondered if Ramona ever dated Howie Kemp. In any case, they& #39;re still pals. They often comment on each other& #39;s Facebook posts. Willa Jeanâshe was probably a queen bee at some point and now tells her granddaughters to be ladylike.
Oops, I forgot about Roberta Quimby! I mean, she definitely was the wild child, right? Majored in art. Lived in New York for a while before settling in Los Angeles.
After the Quimby parents died, Ramona, Beezus, and Roberta sold the house on Klickitat Street. It was purchased by a guy who ran a food truck that specialized in vegetarian sliders (deep-fried romanesco with house-made sriracha, etc)
I hope that Ramona Quimby, age 69 or 70, is writing a secret memoir and that she laughs to herself remembering that time she cracked an egg on her head; those times she clanked around the neighborhood on stilts made out of tin cans.
Btw I am well aware that Beverly Cleary is still with us https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Wachsendes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Wachsendes Herz">! These tweets were about the way characters endure but are not static. The words on the page may be the same but the way we read and interpret keeps changing. I love seeing all the different takes on Ramona here!
Oh wow all the replies and takes are giving me such joy! Wish we could all hang out on a giant davenport and read the books together https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Wachsendes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Wachsendes Herz">
A lot of discussion about how old Ramona actually would be. No idea really but my guidepost was BEEZUS AND RAMONA, published in 1955; in that book Ramona is four. But I love that time is more fluid over the course of these books. Clearyâs writerly wisdom is endless.
