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The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke by Jane Green

A fourteen-year-old finally gets the bedroom she has wanted her whole childhood. Her father stands in the doorway, looks at the pink rug and the loft bed, and tells her it looks like a giant cupcake.

The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke by Jane Green

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A fourteen-year-old finally gets the bedroom she has wanted her whole childhood.

Her father stands in the doorway, looks at the pink rug and the loft bed, and tells her it looks like a giant cupcake.

She shuts the door and wishes she never had to see it again.

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A fourteen-year-old finally gets the bedroom she has wanted her whole childhood. Her father stands in the doorway, looks at the pink rug and the loft bed, and tells her it looks like a giant cupcake. She shuts the door and wishes she never had to see it again.

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She shuts the door and wishes she never had to see it again.

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