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I'm on page 121 now. I think that this is a very boring part of the book. Amal is talking about her family life and all that stuff. Her aunt, uncle, and cousins. Her aunt and uncle are a lot different than her immediate family because they are really strange and aren't religious at all. They also bleach their hair and all that good stuff. Her cousins seem really annoying... I got annoyed just reading about them. Amal seems to like her cousin Samantha, though. I think that she sounds like she thinks she is cool. She always is smoking, talking about her boyfriend, and sneaking around to be with him when her parents think she is somewhere else. After the family chapter, Amal was with her friends Yasmeen and her Aunt Cassandra and Uncle Tariq. Cassandra and Tariq aren't really related to her, though. In Arabic culture most adults who are family friends are addressed as aunts and uncles. I'm thinking its one of those cases where someone just has that guy who they call uncle and always have, but he's not. Everyone has one of those. The last part of the book I have read so far was about Amal washing her feet to do her "wuduh" before prayer during lunch in the girls' bathroom. That sounds really strange to me. Tia (the mean girl) and Rita Mason (she's mean too) walk into the bathroom and Amal tries to ignore them. They asked what she was doing and she asked "what does it look like?". The girls were being big snots to eachother and it was dumb. If I were Amal I would have been nice to the girl and not pretended I was too cool for her while I was praying. The book is still good but I don't really like this part. THE END.