The Art of Highschool
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Being a seventeen year old is hard enough, coupled with your parent's expectations, navigating senior year (boys included) and an intense obsession with being student body president. Adanna thought she had it all figured out, but lately, with the heat being turned on by her Nigerian parents and an extremely turbulent love life, she wonders if she's lost sight of her original plan.
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