Nancy succumbs relatively quickly to full-blown AIDS, thus giving readers a rapid-paced and horrific account of the disease's progress. A few months later, blood tests indicate that Nancy is HIV-positive. Breathless exuberance turns to horror, anger and despair after her gentle-seeming boyfriend plies her with spiked wine coolers and rapes her in her own mother's bed. The story itself, however, begins on a nearly euphoric note: Nancy, 14, is caught up in her first romance.
Presented as a diary edited by the woman who prepared Go Ask Alice for publication, this book is soberly dedicated "to every kid who thinks AIDS can't happen to him or her" and includes an earnest foreword by one of Nancy's doctors ("I worry about all the beautiful, innocent young Nancys").
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