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Living with a Jar of Secrets... ("What I'm Reading Wednesday" review)

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I can’t really say that I’ve done many (any?) bad—like, seriously bad —things. Most of us probably can’t, if we’re honest. Plenty of stuff we’re not too proud of, sure. Things we’d take back, not do, or do differently, you bet. But really, truly, awful bad?  But… what if you had —or, since I don’t know everyone out there who’ll stumble across this, what if you’re the rare beast who has —done something undeniably horrible, that’s been buried deep for however long? What would your life be like, every day, knowing that… whatever … was there, had happened? It’s a scary thought, and a far-scarier reality, in Jennifer Hillier’s brilliant Jar of Hearts . ____________________________ Teenagers are notoriously stupid… in the sense that they process things differently, often act (or act out) very impulsively, and make some incredibly-poor decisions (of the sort that down the road, as adults, they’d never, ever make). Fourteen years ago—under the combined (bad) influences of t