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I t’s the first day of school, and thirteen-year-old Sarah is getting ready for the day. She’s standing in front of her bathroom mir- ror, putting her hair up, frowning at it, and then putting it back down. She’s bought new clothes for the new school year and she can’t decide which top she likes best—the red one or the blue one. Usually, it only takes her a few minutes to get ready to leave the house. But today is different; today she knows she’ll be seeing lots of friends she hasn’t seen all summer. And she knows that she’ll be seeing Matt today. Her mom yells from down the hall that breakfast is getting cold. Sarah sighs and grabs her blue top. She leaves her hair down and smiles at herself in the mirror: she decides she looks beautiful. She’s ready for the day! At school, everyone is talking quickly in loud and excited