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My last vlog!!

My last vlog of the year is over Sarah Dessen's book What Happened to Goodbye.

Afraid

In What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen the main character Mclean moves around a lot. Due to this she tries to not get emotionally attached to anyone. But this all changes when she meets Dave. Mclean and Dave don't have your typical relationship. Dave is level headed genius who would do anything for anyone. While Mclean keeps herself at a distance, able to take care of herself. However, once Dave and Mclean continue to run into each other, mainly due to them being neighbors, things just begin to feel right. This scares Mclean because in the back of her head she knows that soon this will all come to an end, just like everything has before. One song that I believe Mclean could relate to is Afraid, by Vanessa Hudgens. The song talks about a girl being scared of falling in love again and in result getting it broken, so instead she decides to just retreat. This is the same thing that Mclean does in the book. The song says, "Just when it's getting good, I slowly start to freeze. Just when it's feeling real I put my heart to sleep. It's the memory I can see. Then this fear comes over me". In the book when Mclean realizes that Dave does in fact like her she then starts to back away because she realizes she does have real feelings for this boy. In the end she went with her heart and even though it was scary she decided to let her self fall hard for Dave.

I'll see you soon!

In What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen the main character Mclean moves around a lot. In the sixth grade I had my own experience with moving. I went from living in a small town named DuQuoin to living in the college town of Carbondale. Even though I only moved thirty minutes away I can still relate to Mclean. I can understand the want to leave and start over. Also, I can relate to the type of Independence she got after she moved to each place. After I moved I feel as if I grew up more than I had ever expected. Gaining this independence is the best thing that could have happened to me, and it is what I am most thankful for. However, Mclean and I differ in one main way. Mclean always chose to be a different person each time she moved. Me on the other hand never even knew how to be someone else. Even though she moved farther than I did each time, she still would never want to deal with goodbye. Being only thirty minutes away from my friends and family, I never had to say goodbye, just "I'll see you soon".

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8492856-what-happened-to-goodbye
This website gives an accurate summary of the book as well as an accurate review.

http://sarahdessen.com/book/what-happened-to-goodbye/
This is Sarah Dessen's (the author) website. It gives a great backstory on how her novel was written, and how she developed the main character Mclean.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/08/entertainment/la-ca-sarah-dessen-20110508
This review from the Los Angeles Times gives a very good, realistic, review of What Happened to Goodbye.

http://sarahdessen.com/
This s website gives the insight to all of Sarah Dessen's books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dessen
This website gives the background of Sarah Dessen.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/what-happened-to-goodbye?id=what-happened-to-goodbye
This website lists some of the most important quotes from What Happened to Goodbye.

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/13014066-what-happened-to-goodbye
This website lists even more quotes from What Happened to Goodbye.

http://moving.about.com/od/youremovingnowwhat/tp/coping_with_a_move.htm
Mclean moved to many new towns in a short amount of time, this website tells you ways to deal with that stress.

http://moving.about.com/b/2008/01/04/how-to-help-teens-deal-with-moving.htm
Being such a young girl it was hard for Mclean to move so often, even if she did not realize it. This website tells you how to specifically help teens with a move.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder
Even though Mclean wasn't diagnosed as having split personality disorder, she definitley showed the signs. This website explains all about the disorder.

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-split-personality-test
This website would have been helpful to Mclean in determining if she had a split personality.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/split-personality-symptoms.html
This website gives the symptoms to split personality disorder.

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/children_divorce.htm
Mclean had a hard time dealing with her parents divorce. This website gives some tips on how to cope.

http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/families/divorce.html
This website also helps kids who are dealing with divorce.

http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Forming-Friendships
This website gives steps on how to form friendships. Mclean always struggled to find her own clique, and these tips could have helped.