Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas
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Remember the diary you swore no one would ever read? This collection gathers real journal entries, letters, poems, song lyrics and short stories written by teenagers, each reproduced with its original awkwardness intact. Alongside them, the people who once wrote these pages look back with a grown-up's wry commentary, sometimes wincing and sometimes laughing at the younger selves they left behind.
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The result is a window onto the emotional roller coaster of adolescence, full of crushes, pep talks, unfiltered grievances and grand plans. Inspired by a New York reading series of the same name, the book makes the case that adulthood, for all its chores, is a considerable improvement on high school.
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