Reading about Alice really reminds me of one of my old best friends. We aren't best friends anymore because of the choices she made, but we were really good friends at one point. Alice reminds me a lot of her especially in the section I just read. In this section, Alice gets fed up with her parents trying to help her. They have her meeting with a pshyciatrist becacuse they know Alice needs help and that she isn't doing too well. Alice rejects the help and she continues to do drugs behind her parents back and they really have no idea because she's hiding it pretty well. This really reminds me of my old friend because they same thing happened to her. She wasn't doing as intense, crazy drugs as Alice but she was still doing drugs nonetheless. When her parents tried to help her, she completely denied them. She also denied her friends because we tried to help her as well, but she got really annoyed so there was nothing else that we could really do for her. My friend definitely was not as bad as Alice in any way but she did try to run away much like Alice. However, she came back a lot sooner and she was staying at a friends house. Alice completely left home and went to Denver where she started living at a kind of halfway house. They wanted to contact her parents but she wouldn't let them because she knew that that would be the end of her doing drugs, and she did not want that to happen. I find what is happening to Alice extremely sad, and I think that it was probably so hard for her family as well because they had no idea where she was. For a while, my friend's parents didn't know where she was either and it was pretty scary because she could've been anywhere and something could've happened to her and no one would have known. It's scary. I definitely see some resemblance between my friend and Alice. Both also had low self-esteem and tried to change themselves for other people. My friend always felt as though she was letting everyone down, just like Alice. My friend wasn't as near as bad as Alice was, but there are definitely some similarities.
TEEN RUNAWAYS
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