And if I could, I would do every second of every moment over again if I knew the secret.
You get one chance.
You get to do this thing one time and you don’t even know when it goes from swirling forward and around and around in circles to just a plain cold stop and nothing more. Can you believe it? All this time I’ve spent weighing this and weighing that, worrying about this and worrying about that, living back then and living forward, caring about what so-and-so thinks and about so-and-so, too, but never living here, here, this moment here. Never even acknowledging that this moment even exists, and it hits me, like a live volt through the chest.
This moment here.
This is all you get.
Before you are part of the sky.
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About the Author
ANDREA PORTES is the bestselling author of the critically lauded adult novels Hick and Bury This. Anatomy of a Misfit is her third novel, and her first for young adult readers. After growing up shuffled between such disparate locales as Nebraska, Rio de Janiero and half a dozen others in between, Andrea now lives in Los Angles. This book is based on events that took place in her ninth-grade year.
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Author’s Note
This is a novel based on my ninth-grade year of junior high. I wrote this story because I wish I could go back in time and give this message to myself.
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Copyright
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ANATOMY OF A MISFIT. Copyright © 2014 by Andrea Portes. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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