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On October 30th, Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves edited by Miranda Kenneally and E. Kristin Anderson, was published. It is a new book of letters from 70 different authors to their teenage selves. The publisher offered an opportunity to bloggers to write their own letters to their teen selves. Dear Teen Me, You’ve come a long way since high school. Right now you’re really focused and rather a stick-in-the-mud. The fact that you’ll end up graduating salutatorian of your high school class is not going to make you any happier as an adult. It’s still a great accomplishment, but it doesn’t help you make the world a better place. I’m not going to lie to you, Teen Me, you have some rough stuff ahead of you. You think people are icky in high school, they are even worse in college and in the real world....