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Blume, Judy.
FOREVER
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1999
IL YA
ISBN 0689849737
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 17 year old Katherine meets Michael at a New Year's eve party.  They start dating, fall completely in love, and promise to be together forever.  Katherine even decides to lose her virginity to Michael.

But then summer comes and they get separated because they go off to work in different states.  At the camp where Katherine works as a tennis instructor she meets and starts to have feelings for Theo, a 21 year old college student.

Now Katherine is confused.  How can she have feelings for Theo yet still be in love with Michael?  What about her and Michael's promise to be together forever?  (Davinna Artibey, Center for International Studies, Denver Public Schools, CO)
SUBJECTS:     Man-woman relationship -- Fiction.
                        High school students -- Fiction.
                        Love stories.
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