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And We Stay Literary Analysis
And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard is about a 17 year old girl who expresses herself through poetry as she has dealt with loses in her life. Emily reminisces her boyfriend’s suicide and the lost of her unborn child. Sent to a boarding school in Amherst, Massachusetts, she then meets her roommate, K.T. who quickly becomes her best friend and one of her support

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