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SUMMARY Go ask Alice is a diary about a teenager’s true life. Alice writes about her every day. She is arguing with her parents, has a poor self-image and wants to lose weight. She is uncomfortable at school and worries too much about everything. When her parents get new jobs, they have to move to another city. The move is difficult for Alice. She feels like an outcast at school and has difficulties in finding friends. Soon she meets Beth, the neighbor girl. They become good friends, but when the summer holiday comes Beth travels away for the whole summer. Alice feels alone again and goes on a vacation to her grandparents. There she reunites with Jill, a cool girl she remembered from her hometown. Jill invites Alice to a party, and Alice couldn’t feel better. She was so glad that Jill, who is one of the cool ones, invites her to a party. At the party Alice comes in contact with drugs and she loves the feeling. Loves the feeling of forgetting all her worries and feels she is flying. Everything was fine. Next day she promised herself that she never would try drugs again, though she was curious. When she arrives home she falls back into the addiction and gets new friends. She experiments more and more with drugs. She is out with friends the whole time and one day she and many of her friends hitchhikes to Oregon to get more drugs. Alice looses them, and meets a girl called Doris. Doris lets Alice stay in her apartment and they prostitute themselves to get more drugs. They come in contact with a priest and he calls Alice parents and tells what’s happened. She comes home and she gets admitted to a mental hospital. Life in asylum drains the diarist. When she arrives home she and her family take a holiday. She is much better and gets new straight friends. She dreads to start school again but feels stronger with support of her new friends. She writes in her diary that she doesn’t need the diary anymore, because now she has people in her live that she can communicate with and trust. In the epilogue we learn that Alice died three weeks later of an overdose. Whether it was accidental or planned, no one’s knows. media type="youtube" key="Hx4RsCfL_fA" height="308" width="340"