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Summary This book is about Alice and her family are moving. She thinks it’s difficult to find new friends at her new school. But after a while she meets Beth, and they become good friends. When the summer come, Beth leave for a summer camp, and Alice feel lonely, but she is traveling to her grandparents. She is on vacation in her hometown. All her friends have gone on their holiday and there is no one she can hang out with. Then she meets Jill, one of her old school mates. Jill invites Alice to her party, and there she ingest LSD, and experiences a fantastic drug trip.

Alice experiences more drugs. An old friend of her, Roger and his parents came to visit her grandfather after his heart attack. Alice likes Roger, but she is embarrassed about her drug use and loss of virginity. She is worried that she may be pregnant. When Beth comes back from the camp, Alice thinks she has change her so much, and they abruptly lose touch. After a while Alice meet a hip girl, her name is Chris. Her parents are afraid about their daughter’s “hippie” appearance.

Chris and Alice work together and after a while, they are best friends. On school, Chris and Alice are the popular ones, who use drug and go at parties. Richie, Chris’s friend intrudes Alice on to marijuana. To earn more money for drugs, Alice and Chris began to sell drugs and do whatever they can to help Chris’s two friends, Richie and Ted. But Richie and Ted are not who they thought they were, and the police are talking with Alice, and she tell them about Richie and Ted. Alice and Chris move to San Francisco, and they find a small apartment. Sheila gives Chris a job in her boutique. Sheila invites Alice and Chris to a party at her house.

At the party, Alice and Chris use drugs again. Then they try heroin. After that party, they decide to cut their drug lifestyle. They move again, and find a new apartment in Berkeley, there they open a jewelry shop. But when she starts at school again, her old friends came to her with drugs, she and Chris smoke marijuana, then they’re back on drugs. Even if the police raid Chris house when they use drugs, they keep going.

Alice travel to southern California with a new friend, Doris. She is so upset to drugs that she is prostituting herself for them, and keep going with drugs. Alice talk with a priest about herself and teen runaways, the priset is calling her parents. She travel home, and after a while, her grandfather dies in a coma from a stroke. She begins to think about that worm and maggots are going to eat her grandfather’s dead body. Then she meets Joel, and she begins to fantasize about marrying him. At school the pressure to take drugs intensifies.

Alice is writing in her diary from a hospital, she is wondering how she ended up there, and can only think of the worms she thinks are eating her alive. When she was baby-sitting, someone put LSD in her chocolate covered peanut. Alice fins out that she is being sent to an insane asylum, she thinks it’s scary, because of the ugly building. When Alice is on the insane asylum, she meets a thirteen year old girl, she has been using drug and prostitute herself. And this in an age of thirteen year! Alice returns home to her family, and she is finally happy. She meets new friends and hope they don’t know about her history. In the epilogue, we are told that Alice died three weeks after her decision not to keep another diary. It was her parents who found her dead. They called the police and the hospital, but there was nothing anyone could do.

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