Epilogue

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Four months later, the police investigetion into Olivia's death was finally closed.

It had been four long months, filled with harsh words, intense interviews, lots of tears, heartache and regret, but it was finally over.

Normal teen suicides don't take so long to figure out, but something as spontaneous as this took a lot of hard work. Her friends were no help of course - they were confused and scared.

"She was happy," they said. "She had no reason to die."

But Olivia did have reasons to die. Under the surface, she was broken. She had cracked months ago, her so called friends were just too blind to see it.

If it wasn't for the smashed cell phone found under her bad, the case may have never been solved. They would have ruled her off as depressed or mentally unstable and blamed the parents. But one look at Olivia's internet history made it pretty self-explanatory what was wrong with the teenager.

The small, thin girl didn't see herself as small and thin and she desperately wanted to change that, which is why exactly one year ago - the day her health began to deteriorate - there was just one thing found in her search history.

"How To Be Skinny."

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