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Chapter x I hate my father. I hate school. I hate being fat. I hate the principal because he wanted to fire Ms. Finney, my English teacher. My name is Marcy Lewis. I'm thirteen years old and in the ninth grade at B wight D. Eisenhower Junior High. All my life I've thought that I looked like a...

CHAPTERIt's the night of April twenty-eighth and the temperature hovers near the freezing mark. In Moscow it might as well be summer, but seven time zones to the east it's the first warm night of the year. Icicles weep, crack, and fall into heaps of wet snow. A flickering aurora drapes a web of...