Why I Love Grace

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Grace was a typical 18 year old girl who just graduated high school and moved off to college far away from her family, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing since she has an identical twin named Alice. Alice has never been fond of Grace because Grace was always everyone’s favorite. Throughout their childhood, Alice would get left out of all of the family events and friend activities. All the boys that Alice liked, liked Grace. All of Alice’s friends just used her to get to Grace. Alice has finally had enough after 18 years of being behind Grace, but don’t feel too sorry for Alice yet, because she is going to do something about it to make you feel bad for Grace.
Grace goes to Harvard and Alice goes to Hawkeye, a very small community college in Iowa. Since they are so far away from their parent’s home, Alice can live Grace’s life without the risk of their parents finding out.
Before she even could start her plan, she had to call Grace to “apologize” for everything that she has done and told her that she wanted to make it up to her by going to stay with her for a “girls week”. Then Alice starts her evil plan by stalking Grace on every social media she has. She then
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After she gets there, she checks into a motel that takes cash so her mom can’t see where she is. She checks into a motel just in case something goes wrong. The only thing she has to do now is go see her sister and get her to believe that she has “changed”, but for her plan to work, Grace’s friends can not know that she is here to see Grace. Alice knows for a fact that Grace never told any of her friends about her because she didn’t want people to know how embarrassing her twin sister is. So, Alice invites Grace out to eat instead of going to her dorm. At supper, Alice goes on and on about how she is so sorry for all the bad things she has done to Grace, but Grace doesn’t buy it for a second. She quickly realizes that Alice is up to

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