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Deirdre Spelling Analysis
What would I do if I found out the truth about an event in history? What if nothing is as it seems?
Those two questions always played an important role in the life of Deirdre Spelling. Since she caught her mother cheating on her dad with one of her third-grade teachers Deirdre has always been a bit suspicious of other people. There was not one person on this earth that she completely trusted, not even her own father. Her father was the only human being in her life that stayed with her, no matter what. But even though he has proved so many times that he would love her forever, she could not get herself to trust this loving man. How could she when her mother, her friends, and her sister all left her to face her nightmares alone. Her father simply
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She decided to drop her work and join her dad on the couch to watch it together. It was a tradition of them to watch the news every Wednesday night together and discuss it afterward. Her mind wandered when the journalist started talking about some kind of celebrity, her best friend Nick Fletcher called her yesterday to remind her that his band was still performing tomorrow night and he had tried to persuade her into tagging along with him and his bandmates. It’s like his goal of the year is to force her into the normal high school life. She did not want that for herself, she was perfectly fine with staying and writing conspiracy theories. It was kind of a peculiar hobby of her that not many coevals of her enjoyed. Certainly not in this town, where everyone seemed to enjoy living their life in ignorance, not knowing the truths that were uncovered in the bedchamber of the fourteen-year-old girl. When she heard the word excavation she got pulled back to reality and re-focused herself on the television. It was an item about an excavation in Macedonia, Greece. She listened to the reporter talking about the possibility that the tomb of Alexander the Great and his family was found. She listened intensely, hoping to hear something interesting and to get some inspiration for her conspiracy blog. One of the reporters started talking: “Possible family tomb of Alexander the Great found. The archaeologists are saying that it is an option that one of the found bodies is the real corpse of Alexander the Great. This would incline that the corpse that we all call Alexander the Great would be fake.” While listening to the voice of the reporter, she got a rush of inspiration. Her dad saw her face brighten and asked if she wanted to start writing and searching right now. He knew her so well. She could not do anything except writing when

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