As of today I’m sixteen years old. I would say I’m like most sixteen year old, I drive but only a 24.5% of teenagers actually get their license at sixteen. With being able to drive on my own it allows me to have a lot more freedom, such as getting to see my friends more often and going out to places without parents. We constantly wonder what our future holds. Years before I got my license I always wondered what it would be like to drive on my own. People lives always change and grow from year to year. When I’m at the age of 21, the legal age which is five years from now, I wonder how much different my life will be. I’m at one of my most exciting years of my life, the age 16 and there’s so much more to look forward to.

From looking at the cover of my book I could tell it was about a girl. I read the insights of the book off the cover and it´s about the daily struggle of teenagers and what we can exaggerate about the most from just a pimple to not getting a signature from the guy that the main character thinks is the most attractive. The girl on the front cover of the book, has pink eye shadow on, it describes how she uses makeup to find herself more pretty.

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