Leah Lynette Mandelir was a basketball star, she had it all to go to college and play basketball for UCLA. But the pressures of her mother who was a model and wanted her to follow her footsteps, the cheerleaders who were tiny little twigs and still not satisfied with themselves, and her love for her best friend who loves her brain and mind, but drools over the tiny China doll girls, got to her and almost killed her. She was tall beautiful and 200lbs. of muscle and ended up tiny fragile with 140lbs. and no body fat in less than a month and a half.
Sometimes just not having your high school sweetheart notice you might be enough to break your heart, and make you want to be like the tiny little cheerleader he does notice. You get so caught up in looking like the ideal model type you forget who you are are inside. It's not about looks and how people show their beauty on the outside because beauty and hair is just borrowed, sometimes it's not even yours you can now buy such things as extensions, it's just something to remind you how good you can feel and throughout time it is taken away from you. What really matters now is what you got on the inside, what you bring out to people and what you show through your soul by giving out so much and not expecting nothing else in return. That's the kind of person that someone should be interested in because at the end of the day it's what really matters.
The pressures of being a teenager is hard especially if your family is falling apart and you got no one to support you. You might think that if you get skinny enough more people will like you and accept you and all your problems will be solved, but that is just not how the cookie crumbles. If you need to look a certain way in order to fit in a group or to have a person to like you then you are just wasting your time. God took his time to create everyone a special different way, and its silly to think that you have to look like someone else without realizing you're supposed to look the way you are. I am not saying that I have a problem with people losing weight I think it's fine if you do it the healthy right way. But when you over obsess over it then you have a problem.
These are one of the two most valuable human wisdom's I learned from reading this book. Even though I read it quite fast, I payed very close attention to it, and didn't just read the story, I put myself into it. When you put yourself as one of the characters in the story, its like you make the same decisions and learn the same lessons as the book teaches you. When you do that in a story you know the book is good and the author did a very good job with it.
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