It’s mostly a Dear Abby type deal, where people write in with questions about love or sex or whatever and I answer them. Aphrodite when I started writing our school paper’s relationship column last year. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person I figure that’s the best time to start over. Otherwise you’re just walking around regurgitating what’s expected, which is like, why bother? I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. I think everyone should have at least a part of them that’s self-invented in fact, the world would be much more interesting if we all created our own identities afresh whenever we felt like it. To be honest, I dig having a secret identity, even if it is kind of a misnomer. But my other option’s “third base,” which is suspiciously ’80s, right? Come on, inventors-of-sexual-euphemisms, get on the job!) That might seem like a pretty hefty title for a seventeen-year-old junior who’s not even sure she’s officially made it to what my mom refers to as “heavy petting.” (Ew. Only a select few, however, know I’m the evil genius behind my nom de plume, Dr. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gehrman, Jody Elizabeth. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content. Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India ♦ Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) ♦ Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa ♦ Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England.Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) ♦ Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) ♦ Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England ♦ Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014, U.S.A. DIAL BOOKS An imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

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