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That plot generator has brought to mind
Jun. 10th, 2019 03:20 amthe moral to any Mary Downing Hahn story about ghosts ever (and most other ghost-related MG novels):
1. If you are unfriendly and unsociable and have no friends, the only friend you will ever make will be a ghost.
2. Ghosts all have deep-seated emotional problems, which is why they want to be your friend. You will have to be their therapist.
3. Once you have helped them heal, they will go away and leave you, and you will never see them again. The book will end before we find out if you ever learned to make living friends. This is a happy ending.
There's something a bit sad about that moral.
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1. If you are unfriendly and unsociable and have no friends, the only friend you will ever make will be a ghost.
2. Ghosts all have deep-seated emotional problems, which is why they want to be your friend. You will have to be their therapist.
3. Once you have helped them heal, they will go away and leave you, and you will never see them again. The book will end before we find out if you ever learned to make living friends. This is a happy ending.
There's something a bit sad about that moral.
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