The reason I connect so well with Remy is because I acted exact same way. About 5 years asgo I did not believe there was any good in anyone and that love was not real. I just put up with people and school beacuse I had to.
The only real differnces between me and Remy is that I didn't want to go away to college and I felt nothing but anger. Remy was just apathetic towards people and love. My life plan was get out of high school and go to a trade school.
Then high school came. My friends and teachers pushed me to go to college. I agreed and planed to go to NOVA then to a four year college.
Then after my frist year at NOVA me and my boyfriend of three years broke up. A few weeks later I met my current boyfriend, and made me relize love isn't just in fairytales, and now I plan to finish the semester and gor to Cosmotolgy school.
Like Dexter woke up something in Remy and made her open up and go for her dreams, my boyfriend woke that up in me.
I think you're on to something here: when we read books, we connect to the protagonists because they remind us of ourselves, or they even "repel" us in their ability to be the opposite of ourselves. There is an attraction to certain characters based on similarities and differences.
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