Retelling "Love, Sara"

Author's Note: This is my retelling assignment for a book of personal choice. I chose "Love, Sara", a book I chose last year for another reading assignment, and even though it was for an assignment, it is still one of my favorite books!

Ending Revealed: 

A dark childhood of abuse, parental death, and loss of love, smiles, and humor leads a girl to her teenage years. Series of documents withhold her life's story as it all leads to not her, but her best friend's downfall when she gets pregnant. Consoling her best friend's dread and self-hatred, she finds herself realizing that her words are meant for her own aid, and when her best friend's death is not either an accident nor mistake, she finds everything happens for a reason, then trying to right the wrong of her childhood, leading a new path into a bright future.


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Told throughout series of emails, writing pieces, dialogue and newspapers, Sara always signed her papers "Love, Sara"- although her dark secrets of childhood have restricted her loving feelings. Yet, her fearful memories are bottled up and aren't shared, because it's her friend who takes the spotlight when she becomes pregnant and instantly loathes herself with dread. Sara attempts to console her best friend and her boyfriend, although it only gets worse when scholarships, homes, money and lives get taken away. Sara battles her inner demons while desperately attempting to help her friends when suddenly the question is: Who will live on?