This is my podcast's first "do not read" given to a book. Do not read it! The book is published as a "journal" that chronicles the two years of this girl's life. It begins when that girl is 15 years old and ends around the time of her seventeenth birthday. Early on in the first journal she is exposed to drugs while at a party. She trips off of LSD when someone gives her Coca Cola that was laced. The entire diary follows the aftermath of that incident. She dabbles in other drugs and eventually falls from grace and runs away from home, becomes homeless, practices prostitution for a second, etc. The whole 9 yards. It sounds intriguing but what I found out this time around is that NONE OF IT IS TRUE

I first read this book when I was a sophomore in high school (around the same age as the diarist) and I remember being so impacted by this. I would think back on it all the time and for the last seven years, I would even recommend it to people! I'd tell people it was a true story and that it was crazy and that they had to read it.

When I was about 150 pages in, I flipped to the front cover and I discovered that it was purely a work of fiction. I did some digging on the internet and sure enough. We have been deceived! I am still in complete disbelief, the entire book was made up by a middle-aged woman! wow.