A Messy, Beautiful Life
By Sara Jade Alan (PolSci'00)
(Entangled Teen, 220 pages; 2017)
Life is funny sometimes.
And not always the ha, ha kind. Like that one time where a hot guy tried to kiss me and I fell. Down. Hard. And then found out I had cancer.
I鈥檓 trying to be strong for my friends and my mom.
And I鈥檓 trying so hard to be 鈥渏ust friends鈥 with that hot guy, even though he seems to want so much more. But I won鈥檛 do that to him. He鈥檚 been through this before with his family, and I鈥檓 not going to let him watch me die.
So, I tell myself: Smile Ellie. Be funny Ellie. Don鈥檛 cry Ellie, because once I start, I might not stop.
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