When Everything Feels Like the Movies
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Raziel Reid
Everyone wanted to break me. But stars aren't broken, they explode. And I was the ultimate supernova. My name was Jude. They called me Judy. I was beautiful either way.School was basically a movie set. We were all just playing our parts. The Crew, the Extras, the Movie Stars. No one was ever real . . . especially me. I didn't fit any category.All the girls watched me - I could walk so much better than them in heels, and my make-up was always flawless. All the boys wanted to, well, you know . . . even if they didn't admit it. They loved me, they hated me, but they could never ignore me.I only had eyes for Luke. A red carpet rolled out from my heart towards him and this year, on Valentine'sDay, I was going to walk that carpet and find my mark next to him. It would be like a dream.But my dream was going to turn into a nightmare. This is my story.#WEFLTM
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Author
Raziel Reid
Pages
176
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Published Date
2015-04-14
ISBN
1472151259 9781472151254
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"“It’s better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you’re not.”<br/><br/>The ending reminded me of the murder of Larry King. I thought surely it must be connected? King was also shot a couple days before Valentine’s Day. And looking at the Wikipedia, I was correct. <br/><br/>This is a story that needs to be told. But how tragic it is that a story like this imitates real life…<br/><br/>I did a presentation in high school on the treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals in our society. Looking back at the stories of Brandon Teena and Matthew Shepard, compared to experiences of Leelah Alcorn and Larry King, I could see that not much had changed over two decades. Countless tragedies have been witnessed since then and I don’t expect it’ll get much better in the near future, with the way we are seeing trans/gay rights being attacked yet again."
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Cadence Rudzinski