That plot generator has brought to mind
Jun. 10th, 2019 03:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulythe 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.
Vanilla fever
EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight
Accumulated Mutations Create A Cellular Mosaic In Our Bodies
Learning chess at 40: What I learned trying to keep up with my 4-year-old daughter at the royal game.
How Geocachers Navigate Fear in the Urban Woods
Nalbinding: Protecting an endangered heritage craft for the future
Fighting the Gender Stereotypes That Warp Biomedical Research
The Extraordinary ‘Cookbooks’ Left Behind by Prisoners of War and Concentration Camp Victims
46 ice cream trucks are being seized in a New York City crackdown
Those tiny shampoo bottles are on the way out
Organic Farming Has A Plastic Problem. One Solution Is Controversial
The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response
You Will Have to Make Sacrifices to Save the Planet
The Friends Whose Kids All Have the Same Rare Disease
How Sharing Books with My Dad in Prison Made Life Bearable for Both of Us
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