conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Provide the first two paragraphs for a book with the title 'Then Again, Maybe I Won't'.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Then Again, Maybe I Won't
  Summary: Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse.
  Who says March is supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb? That's a lot of bull. All it's done this March is rain. I'm sick of it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Provide five more paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: How does he know so much about baby shoes? I wondered. Vicki doesn't even wear shoes yet! Ralph is different lately. He isn't The Wizard any more. He's just an old guy with a wife and kid. Would he be like this if we were still in Jersey City? Is it being a father that changed him?
  Finally we sat down to dinner. I've never eaten so much in my life. For dessert we had a choice of three pies—pumpkin, apple or lemon meringue. I chose lemon meringue because I knew Angie baked it and Maxine baked the other two.
  When Aunt Rose came downstairs she said, "Mama's lucky to be able to spend her last years in such luxury."
  Later they all decided the reason Grandma "took to her room" was plain old age. I could have told them the truth but I'd have gotten in a lot of trouble.
  My father offered Ralph and my uncles cigars. He laughed as he told them each one cost $1.00. When they all lit up, Aunt Rose asked Ginger to recite for us. Ginger's been doing that ever since I can remember. You'd think by now she'd know how dumb she sounds. You'd think she'd be too embarrassed to stand up in front of a bunch of relatives and say her stupid poems. But no! She jumped right up and started.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Provide the last five paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: But the words won't come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing a brace from her neck to her hips. She feels ugly and angry. But only she can figure out how to deal with it. And that's going to take courage.
  Karen Newman is never getting married. Why should she? Just look at her parents. All they do is fight. Now her dad has moved out of the house, and he and her mom are talking about divorce. Divorce! But not if Karen can help it. She has a different plan.
  Davey's life has been ripped apart. Her father is dead—shot in a holdup. Uprooted by her grieving mother, sent to New Mexico to stay with an aunt and uncle she barely knows, Davey feels trapped—by her aunt and uncle's fearfulness, by her mother's grief, by her own anger and pain. Then she meets Wolf—intense, brooding, mysterious Wolf. Without asking questions, he somehow understands what Davey is feeling.
  Rachel and Stephanie have been best friends forever... and then Alison arrives. Alison is cool and fun, and everyone likes her, especially Stephanie. How can Rachel compete with that? And Rachel knows Stephanie is hiding something from her. Something big. It's hard to be best friends with someone who's keeping secrets from you. But Stephanie is counting on her friends now more than ever.
  Rachel seemingly has the perfect life—she's a straight-A student, a gifted musician, and a good friend. But she feels like her older brother is determined to ruin everything. Her two best friends think he's funny and they urge Rachel to lighten up, but it's not so easy. Not even when the coolest boy in ninth grade notices her. Is it possible that the key to a perfect life is something other than perfection?