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In the novel Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen, you are taken through a tour of the life of Auden West. Auden was born into a family of writers who want their daughter to be the best of the best. She is a quiet girl who lived with her mother after her parents' divorce, devoting herself to schoolwork in order to please her perfectionist mother. Along the way, she realizes she lost most of her childhood because her parents treat her as an adult, since she was young and she never cared to participate in any of the important events of becoming a teenager. Auden decides to spend her final summer before college in the beach town of Colby where her father, stepmother, and new baby sister live. She starts working as the book keeper
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