The Perks of Being Me
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A series of letters are being written to an unknown person by the name of 'Ed' from a troubled young girl who finds it hard to show people at her school her talents. This is the journey in which she finds herself and decides for once in her life to do what she wants to do. She shows the people who doubted her wrong and she shows how she can be so much more. She breaks away from her typical stereotype of a 'nerd' and becomes a more confident and head strong girl. And she has got Ed and her friends to thank for it. These letters are the insides to what happens to her in her high school life. They show her deepest emotion and how much she struggles on her way to showing the popular kids she is so much better than she is classed.
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