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I'm here to inform you of this wonderful and horrible relationship between a clueless girl and a dangerous boy in the novel Jake Riley; Irreparably damaged by Rebecca Davis and why you should check it out sometime. Set sometime in the 1990s or current time, it's about a girl named Lainey. Even though Lainey is fast and smart, she just can't seem to get away from one particular friend. Although there are many instances of this ‘friendship’ being crooked, she just can't seem to stay away, and this confusing yet somehow touching truth is shown in the novel when Lainey is thinking to herself, “I hate Jake’s guts, but somehow the fact that everybody gangs up on him and thinks that he’ll get help in the place that damaged him makes me want to beat
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