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"Finny said that teaching seemed too normal for me.
Isn't this what all the children's books and movies are always about? How even if the task seems impossible or you're too small or you don't have the right kind of whatever, you're still supposed to try? Until you get to high school and suddenly you're supposed to choose a safe path. A path that won't take you far from home. A path that isn't too risky..."

"It's not that I want to be a writer and not a teacher, because I already am a writer. What I want is to be a published author, to have a few readers, to be able to hope that somewhere out there, someone loved my book."

She is me. That whole statement couldn't be more true. That is how I feel. ♥️

Ok, who else has hated Jamie since literally the very beginning? Raise your hand.