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"It’s about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering
we don’t practice real smiling every day, you know, cause maybe we too busy
being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people."
Theme is a subject or the main point that an author makes in a story. It can be a life lesson the character has learned or something that the author would like the attention to be on.