![]() ![]() Zoey’s pregnancy estranges her from her own family, but also focuses and settles her. Meanwhile, her best friend Zoey has paired off with Jake’s friend and roommate Scott, a short-lived romance that results in Zoey getting pregnant. Her first time having sex, with a local boy named Jake whom she meets in a nightclub, is a disappointment, and she is later humiliated when she learns that Jake knows about her illness. Nevertheless, Tessa’s plans are complicated by the needs of her family and friends, and by her own illness. She keeps the list in her bedside drawer so that her father will not see it. Tessa’s list of things she’d like to do before death is her way of behaving like a typical rebellious teenager despite her illness. Tessa lives with her patient and devoted father and her younger brother Cal her mother, who left the family when Tessa was twelve, lives in a separate apartment. ![]()
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