Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the night of the big dance by herself in her bedroom, or the parents who foolishly believed a boy would arrive on their doorstep with flowers, a limo, and a promise to rescue their daughter from her solitude. J.M. Reep
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Leah was an eighteen-year old girl who by all accounts would have been considered a “young lady”, but she wasn’t. She was an adult trapped in a teenager’s body. She had her life planned out in every detail. The only thing that kept her from being completely fulfilled was the man who had asked to take her to the prom.

He wasn’t her friend, and he wasn’t even really a boy, he was just another one of her fantasies. When Leah began to realize that this man of her dreams might not show up at all, she was crushed. The end of the book ends with Leah deciding that what she wanted didn’t matter and that she needed to be happy with what she had rather than wishing for something else.

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