Dear Evan Hansen--The Novel

Because today all you have to do is just be yourself. But also confident. That’s important. And interesting. Easy to talk to. Approachable. And don’t hide, either. Reveal yourself to others. Not in a pervy way, don’t disrobe. Just be you—the true you. Be yourself. Be true to yourself.

She’s just normal. Not normal as in boring. Normal as in real.

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Title: Dear Evan H

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Names: Emmich, Val, author. | Levenson, Steven,

Sometimes I feel like my mom works so hard just so she can hold up an invisible cross-country middle finger to her younger replacement.

Why would he do this? I mean, I understand how low a person can get. I also know that when you’re not in the best headspace, the trivial can turn into the

insurmountable and all of a sudden you’re heading down a dark path and you can’t find your way back.

Something happened just now when I was writing. What a concept, saying exactly what you feel without stopping to second-guess. I mean, now I’m second-guessing, but as I was writing it and as I was sending it to the printer, no hesitation, just one fluid motion.

I’m left with a loneliness so overpowering it threatens to seep from my eyes. I have no one. Unfortunately, that’s not fantasy. That’s all-natural, 100 percent organic, unprocessed reality.

Any second now,’ I kept saying to myself. ‘Any second now, here they come.’”

“Did they?”

“No. Nobody came. That’s what’s so funny.”