
i wonder how i would feel if i was a teenager reading this book. naomi and her relationships with will, ace, and james are so perfectly high school. the passion, the pressure, the fleeting nature of adolescent feelings whether they be love or infatuation. looking at it from 11 years post high school the intensity and drama of it all makes me alternately nostalgic and so grateful that i am not there anymore. but i am sure that most teenager girls will relate to naomi and her convoluted feelings for the guys in her life.
as i read memoirs, it was interesting to think how i would look at my life this minute if i couldn't remember the things that happened to me in the last year, two years, even longer. i would wonder how my relationships developed, how i ended up in the house i'm in now, how my daughters could be as old as they are. memory can be both a blessing and a curse. in a way, naomi is given a new beginning by the loss of the last four years.
it kind of reminds me of this absolutely fantastic dave wilcox song called when you're ready. sometimes memories keep us from being able to be the person we want to be...they sort of chain us to who we are...but we can always choose to be different. to forgive ourselves and others and move on.
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I think I'd probably really like this one
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