- What'd you get?
- Who knows, but lets just say my mother won't get a bumper sticker this year.

Thirteen is a scary movie to watch. It feels unbelievable, but I know at least one young woman who went down this path. And the whole thing was written by a 14 year old (co-star Nikki Reed, she plays Evie.) In the commentary they say "we kind of realized that the real stuff 12 year old, 13 and 14 year old girls are going through is much more interesting then anything we could make up." This can't be the reality of most young teens, but I'm sure they're out there.

It gets scary by the end as we realize that there are real, permanent damages that happen to these girls' lives. While I was glad the movie ended (it was hard to watch) - I kind of wanted to see more. I want to see how a young girl come back to real life from the surreal, unmaintainable, nose dive they go through here. I want to believe it's possible, but I have no idea what the path from point A to point B looks like. But for the girl I know dealing with it now I have to believe it's possible.

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