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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Richie, Ted, Beth entitled Go Ask Alice.
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conversations.value: Go Ask Alice: In 1968, a 14-year-old girl begins keeping a diary, in which she records her thoughts and concerns about issues such as crushes, weight loss, sexuality, social acceptance, and relating to her parents.\nThe dates and locations mentioned in the book place its events as occurring between 1968 and 1970 in California, Colorado, Oregon, and New York City.\nThe two towns in which the diarist's family reside during the story are not identified, and are only described as being college towns.\nThe diarist's father, a college professor, accepts a dean position at a new college, causing the family to relocate.\nThe diarist has difficulty adjusting to her new school, but soon becomes best friends with a girl named Beth.\nWhen Beth leaves for summer camp, the diarist returns to her hometown to stay with her grandparents.\nShe meets an old school acquaintance, who invites her to a party.\nThere, glasses of cola — some of which are laced with LSD — are served.\nThe diarist unwittingly ingests LSD and has an intense and pleasurable trip.\nOver the following days the diarist socializes with the other teens from the party, willingly uses more drugs, and loses her virginity while on LSD.\nShe worries that she may be pregnant, and her grandfather has a minor heart attack.\nOverwhelmed by her worries, the diarist begins to take sleeping pills, first stolen from her grandparents, then later prescribed by her doctor upon returning home.\nHer friendship with Beth ends, as both girls have moved in new directions.\nThe diarist befriends a hip girl, Chris, with whom she continues to use drugs.\nThey date college students Richie and Ted, who deal drugs and persuade the two girls to help them by selling drugs at schools.\nWhen the girls walk in on Richie and Ted stoned and having sex with each other, they realize their boyfriends were just using them to make money.\nThe girls report Richie and Ted to the police and flee to San Francisco.\nChris gets a job in a boutique with a glamorous older woman, Shelia [sic].\nShelia invites both girls to lavish parties, where they resume taking drugs.\nOne night Shelia and her new boyfriend introduce the girls to heroin and brutally rape them while they are stoned.\nTraumatized, the diarist and Chris move to Berkeley where they open a jewelry shop.\nAlthough the shop is a success, they quickly grow tired of it and miss their families; they return home for a happy Christmas.\nBack at home, the diarist encounters social pressure from her drug scene friends, and has problems getting along with her parents.\nChris and the diarist try to stay away from drugs, but their resolve lapses and they end up on probation after being caught in a police raid.\nThe diarist gets high one night and runs away.\nShe travels to several cities, hitchhiking partway with a girl named Doris who is a victim of child sexual abuse.\nThe diarist continues to use drugs, supporting her habit through prostitution, and experiences homelessness before a priest reunites her with her family.\nNow determined to avoid drugs, she faces hostility from her former friends, especially after she calls the parents of one girl who shows up high for a babysitting job.\nThe diarist's former friends harass her at school and threaten her and her family.\nThey eventually drug her against her will; she has a bad trip resulting in physical and mental damage, and is sent to a psychiatric hospital.\nThere she bonds with a younger girl named Babbie, who has also been a drug addict and child prostitute.\nReleased from the hospital, the diarist returns home, finally free of drugs.\nShe now gets along better with her family, makes new friends, and is romantically involved with Joel, a responsible student from her father's college.\nShe is worried about starting school again, but feels stronger with the support of her new friends and Joel.\nIn an optimistic mood, the diarist decides to stop keeping a diary and instead discuss her problems and thoughts with other people.\nThe epilogue states that the subject of the book died three weeks after the final entry.\nThe diarist was found dead in her home by her parents when they returned from a movie.\nShe died from a drug overdose, either accidental or premeditated.