She told May about it the night she died. As the letters continue she begins to reveal how she was repeatedly molested by a guy May trusted to babysit her. Skye rescues her and brings her home, but not before she accidentally reveals to half the high school her friends' secret. After she tries to party away her problems, she almost gets raped. Skye breaks up with Laurel because he can't deal with her depression and instability, and begins dating another girl. She begins dating her crush, Skye, and tries desperately to be everything he wants, but fails. She goes to parties, gets drunk, and often finds herself in the crossfire of her friends' secret lesbian relationship. She gets wrapped up in the excitement of having a social life for the first time. She writes to Kurt Cobain and Janic Joplin (among many others), relating her emotional turmoil to theirs. After a teacher assigns her students to write a letter to a deceased person, Laurel finds the exercise is the only outlet for her to express her feelings about May's death and the role she played in it. Laurel is new to high school and doesn't want anyone knowing about her dead sister, May. A high school girl writes letters to dead artists to deal with the death of her older sister.
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