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The main character is trying to write an anti-war book about Dresden but he lacks the details so he calls his old friends to see if they remember any details. He also talks about his daily life and how he has a dog and a wife.

The Matthew Effect has to deal with age and how the League Hockey Players were mostly born during January-April. Those who were born between those months have a better success rate.

Roseto is an outlier because they have better health conditions and others would gradually die at the age of 65 because of old age.

Molly finally found some friends at school those being, Teddy and Max. Max is Teddy's sister and Molly was invited over to her house. When Molly was invited she felt like she was back with her old friends and she was actually enjoying herself. Molly then spoke to Brooke's enemy which angered her.

After Molly's horrible day at school, she was looking for her car keys and she broke down crying because she couldn't find them. A guy approached her and gaver her, her keys. Molly was relieved and ended up making friends with him and his sister.

Molly is not liking her new school and called Charmaine.

Brooke is a 15-year-old teenager who was raised by her father. Her father, Brick is a very famous actor, therefore, Brooke being spoiled. Brooke didn't know that she had a half-sister and her half-sister, Molly didn't know that Brick was her father. Molly went to LA to live with her sister and father, turns out her sister didn't like her. Brooke is always annoyed by Molly and is always bullying her. Molly is 15, too.

Barret is traumatized by her experience. Barret spoke up about her rape incident. Barret points out that the number of rapists who avoid prosecution is greater than the number of innocent men who were falsely accused of rape.

The detectives end up bringing up a book which talks about how many innocent men are being accused of rape by malicious women. There's a percentage that 2 percent of women have experienced sexual assault. Cops and prosecutors are not nearly conscientious when it comes to pursuing charges against those who are guilty. Kelly's life changed drastically unlike Smith.

Smith denied his rape accusation. Kelly's was being discussed again and questioned by a different detective. In the end Smith ended up being accused of rape but Kelly thinks his punishment wasn't fair.

Barrett situation was explained that she was with a guy she liked, Adams. Adams tried forcing penetration onto Barrett, but she prevented it and left his place. Adams was interviewed and seemed to be telling the truth. Kelly, another victim explained her rape incident. She was going to sleep with a random student and he ended up making her extremely uncomfortable and made her bleed.

Belnap's story of her experience with rape was shared. She was with her best friend and four football players were with them. They got really drunk and high not knowing that it was a setup to get raped. Belnap became unconscious and was forced two give oral sex to two of the football players. In which one of them had intercourse with her. When questioned, the police made it sound like she let them do that to her.

Beau raped Allison and the police came to tell her that he's been arrested. Rape occurs frequently in the U.S. It all started when Allison went to a party and noticed her best friend Beau. Beau was roughly twice of Allison's weight and height. Allison passed out at the party and slept on the couch which was the perfect time for Beau to rape her. Once he was done Allison ran away and Beau begged her to come back.

Samori's father was living in france and was learning to speak french. He liked it there in France because in America he was only an equation and he was that person that would be stopped by police. Samori's father continues to talk about prince and he ends up talking with his mother. Prince's mother shares her experience and grief and Samori's father continued to tell Samori about the dreamers

Some man told Samori's father that they could have him arrested. His father was never violent and he was ashamed that he made an error and not that he wasn't a good father. Samori's father tells him that he was always a cast into a race in which the wind is always at his face. He also tells him that he doesn't have privilege in living in ignorance. His father wanted to raise him into consciousness.

The father tells Samori about the time were the cops pulled him over. He also talked about Prince Jone's death and how devastated he was. The father also talks about how Samori's family has a history of his family not having fathers. His mother's father left his grandmother did't have a father figure etc. Samori's father tells him that he can't protect him from the police and black people have to be twice as good.

The writer talks about how the library was meant for him instead of a classroom since it was a jail for other people's interests. The writer talks about his kid's mother and how he met her and kissed her. The writer is the father to his son named Samori and he is telling him the flaws of being a black boy and telling him to respect others.

The writer explains his love for Malcolm X and how he was an honest man. The writer reveals how he met the family of the person who he is writing to. The writer briefly explains about The Mecca and Howard University.

The writer did not experience a black president or a world where women of color were not judged by their hair. The writer learned to communicate with head shakes and nods. Aka he practiced street culture. Education wasn't an interest to the writer. School corrupts the people and most black kids who dropout end up in jail.

A letter is being written to someone and the writer is talking about his experience. One of the experiences was when he saw a group of guys and one of them pulled out a gun on him. He briefly talks about his mother and grandmother and how they were beaten.

Emily confronts the girls and goes up to one of the girls and tells her that she is anorexic. The girl ignored Emily and started to call her fat and anorexic. Things only got worse when the other girls joined in.

Emily was tired of getting judged by the girls in the camp so she told them off and gained the respect of the other girls.

Emily went to modeling school with Leah and there she talked to some of the girls and learned about Bulimia and Anorexia. Emily started to starve herself and binge eating and ended up throwing up. She's been losing weight quickly by throwing up but doesn't want to tell Leah yet. Emily's father is still concerned about her weight and treats her bad.

Emily is struggling is losing weight and Leah is having trouble convincing her to lose weight.

Emily has been eating tons of junk food and gained alot of weight and her parents are concerned about her. Emily tells Leah that she’s being gaining weight and Leah tells her that she can help her lose weight.

Emily is jealous of her friend Leah because she's so skinny, beautiful, and is going to be a model. Leah used to be bigger in middle school and now that she's taller and thinner Emily gets mad at that.

There's this girl who is a painter and she sells her paintings. She painted 3 of her friends but hated the faces and covered their faces with trees and branches.

Mia is still at the hospital and she has tons of tubes in her body to try to keep her alive. She starts thinking about her boyfriend Adam and her best friend Kim. Mia's uncles and aunt's came and Teddy isn't in the same hospital with her.