Now & Forever ABCs (Josie)

Josette Rachel Correa

11 October 1995
Roman Catholic

Josie is Mike’s older sister and often mistaken for his twin since the two’s birthdays place them in the same grade.  The two do get along fairly well, and are reasonably close, though there is a fair amount of fighting, disagreement, and rivalry between them.

Josie became a fast and dear friend of Allison’s almost the moment they met out of a seemingly inexhaustible supply of shared interests, and is Zach’s not-exactly girlfriend.  They started dating shortly after meeting, but refused to call themselves a couple or even agree to any degree of exclusivity.

The single interest of Josie’s that isn’t shared with Allison is a fondness for firearms, especially pistols.  She doesn’t have an extensive collection, but loves to fire them and enjoys meeting other people with the same interest — especially ones who might be persuaded to join her at the firing range.

Her dream is to be an Olympic sprinter, but she has asthma bad enough that has been dissuaded from running track competitively; she took up swimming as a therapy for her breathing — which has helped — and she’s got quite good, but is not planning to do it competitively.  Instead she is considering practising with rifles and going into competitive marksmanship.  Her only other plans involve going to Brown, and picking a major using darts (which she hastens to assure her parents is a joke, though no one’s sure it really is).