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Besides following Emily into Philadelphia, readers also stay right at home with her in Cherry Grove. There I met Meg, her best friend, and Rick too, Meg's boyfriend. Emily had felt like the third wheel with them for a long time and was glad that she was finally making new friends, who like her, enjoyed art. Meg and Rick had little understanding for art, so over the summer cracks began to appear in their friendship. Even though Emily did become somewhat self-absorbed, Meg's personality was still captured well, so readers won't be left reading about two-dimensional characters in the least.
While Emily started out as a cookie cutter teen from Cherry Grove, she came to develop herself as her very own person over the summer. Art does that to people, I believe, when one allows themselves to get lost in art and lets art leave impressions on the soul. Vivian captured the whole process beautifully in Emily. Anyone who enjoys novels involving art is bound to enjoy Same Difference. I know I did.
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