Was I cursed at birth or blessed?
I suppose the best way to answer such a question is to ask yourself how many people you know your age or a little younger or older who would want to trade places with you, would want to have your talents and intelligence, or envied you for your good looks enough to accept all the baggage that came along with it.
Right now, in my case, despite my accolades and awards, people like that would be harder to find than the famous needle in a haystack.
But the thing was that despite it all, I didn’t even want to look. I didn’t want to be validated, complimented, or even respected in any way.
I looked in the mirror again. Allison was right. This was a nice color for me.
I wondered.
Would anyone where I was going notice and, if they did, even care?
I must have wanted someone to care. I did want to have friends, and I did hope that there was some boy out there about my age who would find me attractive.
Otherwise, why would I have taken so long to choose my clothes, the way a prisoner on death row might contemplate his last meal?
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Following the death of Virginia Andrews, the Andrews family worked with a carefully selected writer to organize and complete Virginia Andrews’s stories and to create additional novels, of which this is one, inspired by her storytelling genius.
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