visible signs of aging that she’d never noticed before. She felt relieved, and also disappointed, and also amazed that it seemed like men could tell, even from far away, that she was too old to be a sex object.

At the other end of the temporal objectification spectrum are preteen girls. I can mark the exact moment of my entrance into womanhood with the first time a pair of middle-aged men hollered at me from a passing pickup truck. It was the summer before eighth grade, and I still thought of myself as a girl. I looked at TV love scenes and seductively posed women in magazines with detached curiosity—that was what I might be one day (and oh, how I wished for that day) but that was notof year when the Citizen of the Year award is announced, but the chamber is embarking on a new idea this year. Instead of having a separate officer installation dinner, Citizen of the Year banquet and Spirit of Ocean City Award banquet at different times of the year, the chamber in 2009 will have a single First Annual Grand Ball in September during which all of the ceremonies will take place. The larger, single event is scheduled for Sept. 11, and given the significance of the date, the grand ball will have a patriotic theme

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