Go Ask Alice- Pages 120-212

The girl is finally home with her family, she starts off with a new diary and feels optimistic about starting over a drug free life. Then just a few weeks later she does drugs again, she feels guilty writing it down and wishes it never happened. After that she doesn't do drugs for quite some time, she even meets a boy she really likes. Then the kids at school start hassling her to do drugs again, she has no friends and feels terrible. Her grandfather dies and she becomes very disturbed, but her new boyfriend makes her feel better and life is going seemingly well for her. Her grandmother dies, and the kids at school are still giving her a hard time. Things start looking up again and then suddently her next entry she explains that she is in a mental hospital, she explains that maggots are eating her body and her soul, and she is obviously delusional. She gets out of the hospital eventually and starts over yet again, for a long time her journal entries are optimistic and everything feels fine. Her last entry she thanks her journal for always being for her, and she realizes everything she has done wrong.

The book ends in an epilogue explaining that the girl who wrote the journal died of an overdose three weeks after her last entry. No one knows why she did it.

What a sad ending. I can't even imagine.