On the Outskirts of Downtown Indianapolis - Introduction

Once there was a little girl named Eliza Bradbury.  She was eight and a half and had dishwater blond hair; cut asymmetrically.  She was four ft. four in., and she rarely dressed up fancy.  She liked to read, draw, and play house with her friends. She was not a girly- girl.  She did not like the stories where the prince rescues the lady. She thought the princess should rescue the man. Eliza lived with her four old cats: Nimbus, Gilligan, Cirrus, and Lucy; her old dog Willy; her mother, Kelly; her father, Dana; and her younger brother, Isaiah, who was almost three years old.  This is only the beginning of Eliza’s story.