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Goodreads asked Alex Green:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Alex Green There was a girl who moved from Texas to California and transferred into my eighth grade class two months before school ended. I had a ridiculous and instant crush on her and because she lived two streets away, I hoped to run into her over the summer and develop a kind of "Grease" narrative...

But then she vanished.

Her family moved. And when I asked the neighbors and friends of mine who lived nearby, nobody knew anything. Some didn't even remember who she was--that's how fast she moved in and moved out.

Certain I didn't invent her. But who moves halfway across the country for two months? Sure would like to get to the bottom of that...in a book.

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