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Story Analysis: If I Stay By Gayle Forman
If I Stay" by Gayle Forman is about a girl named Mia that plays the cello and auditions for the school Julliard.Her family very much supported her with that decision. She then realized that it would be hard for her to go to Julliard and having a boyfriend on tour would be a problem because she wouldn't get to see him as often. Suddenly Mia and her family experienced a terrible car wreck. They were all critically injured her parent suffered in death, her brother had many cut, and bruises and she was in a coma. She was in a life or death situation nut then decided to wake up at the
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