Again, But Better

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For my parents. I love yous.

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Author’s Note
Dear Reader,
This book you’ve picked up is the one I needed to read in
college. Putting yourself out there to have experiences and
meet people—“doing college,” if you will—can be really
difficult. Freshman through junior year I ended up spending
almost all of my free time in the dorm with my books. I buried
myself in novel after novel, finding solace in the adventures of
other girls. But in the end they did little to ease my growing
anxieties about impending adulthood.
The young women in all the YA books I loved were high-
school age. By eighteen, the majority of them had saved the
world, not to mention: kissed people, traveled, been in a
relationship, had sex. At twenty I felt like a pathetic,
unaccomplished, uncultured, virgin grandma. It sounds like a
joke now, but at the time, around all these people my age
casually discussing all of the above, I felt so small.
I, so badly, wanted to read a coming-of-age story about
someone who was twenty—someone who was still finding
themselves and struggling with becoming an adult even after
they hit the double-decade mark. I needed to know there was
at least one other twenty-plus person out there feeling as alone
and lost as I was. At the time I couldn’t find one.
This is for all the teens/young adults/adults who feel like
they’ve been left behind. You’re not behind. You have time to
find yourself and love and adventure. It’s all out there, and
when you’re ready to push yourself out of your comfort zone
and look for it, you’ll find it.

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Again, but Better
is fiction, but inspired by my own
experiences. Thank you so much for picking it up. I hope you
enjoy.