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Samantha Reece is your average, everyday, very normal twelve-year-old girl. She's a starry-eyed, hopelessly romantic geek who desperately wants to fall in love at the camp she's heading to in just a few hours.
Where she's from, she's known as the trumpet-playing, comic-book-reading, ancient-Egypt-loving nerd who is just one of the guys. So she yearns to be like the heroines in the stories and books that she reads-to be swept off her feet by some handsome stranger in a whirlwind romance. She wants the kind of passionate, sweet, caring bond that she sees between Rogue & Gambit in her X-Men comics.
But then something strange happens.
She goes to sleep on May 16th at a camp in Maine, but wakes up in her 17-year-old body.
Sam lives an entire day in this future version of herself, then wakes right back up in her small pre-teen body. Was it real, or an incredibly vivid dream? Just in case, she records a tape recounting everything that happened that day.
The thing is, it was real.
Every few years, Sam wakes up in the body of her future self. As she gets older, she becomes mature enough to plan for these jumps-and the questions become harder to ignore.
Why is it happening? Where is she going next? What happens if she changes something her future self already lived? When does it end? And most importantly, what happens when it does?
Mixtapes to Myself is a story about finding yourself, appreciating where you come from, and enjoying every step of the journey that gets you to who you will be. It's about finding and losing love, the friendships that come and go, and the ride-or-die friendships you're lucky enough to find. It's about the things you tuck away, the pieces of yourself you may forget, and the people you lose along the way.
It's a vivid tale of a girl who becomes a teenager, who becomes a woman, and how much we can change in just a few short years-and just how completely our lives can change along the way.
This...is Mixtapes to Myself.