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...But unfortunately, VC Andrews got to the name Audrina before I did.

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Andrews (before she died, so it's the real one and not the ghostwriter), better known as the author of Flowers in the Attic, wrote a novel called My Sweet Audrina. (I'm going to spoil it for you, because while I rather enjoy the novels Andrews wrote before she died, they're certainly not high literature. The details of all this might be a bit off, as I only read the novel once, years ago.) The title character is Audrina Adare, who was named after her elder sister, who died before she was born. She wants dearly to be as good as her dear, sweet, dead elder sister, and she spends her days wandering hazily in her family's house.

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And then she finds out that there wasn't an Audrina before her--she's the same one, and on her ninth birthday, she was gang-raped by some boys in their early teens. Her family managed to make her repress the knowledge and made up a bunch of bull about her elder sister. With this knowledge, Audrina starts going to school, has a bunch of angst, ends up marrying one of the guys who was there when she was raped (though he didn't take part), and she tries to learn to be an independent woman (and is an angsty failure, for the most part). There's a bunch of subplots about her elder step-sisters, her younger half-sister, Sylvia (who's apparently retarded because their father beat Sylvia's mother while she was pregnant), and some other stuff, but most of it's hazy in my mind.

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So I have to say that while I'd normally support a name like Audrina, I can't support Audrina itself.

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Mick Jagger is older than:
1. Velcro
2. Cake mix
3. Israel

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A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.