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Gibert stares at the top of the mountain.
"This is my life, huh."
Gilbert was living in the afterlife. He has died many times in his previous lives.
"How utterly, utterly boring. Every life I live, I get this. Boring."
Little did Gibert know...that this was his last and only life on Earth.
<em>Gilbert was planning on dying. So he could be reborn.</em>
But that was the biggest mistake in his life.
The narrator, is the protagonist and she starts explaining that she is a teenager. She knows what the latest styles are, she reads the current editorials, she listens to the radio... She wants us to know that she is not a silly girl. In fact, she is a rational thinker. But in fact, when the boy takes her hand and invite her to the sakiting rink, she abandons all her rationality and she believes when he says that he will call her. When days pass by and he doesn't, she says " I'm not so really dumb".
All that, indicates the conflict: she is a sixteen year old, naive and soft in character behind that tough exterior.
Drinking, smoking, illicit activities, driving
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The apartment shuddered under the onslaught of the howling wind.