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I am reading Red Kayak, by Priscilla Cummings. I think that everyone has had to make a big, risky decision that may affect the rest of their life. For Brady Parks, that decision is whether to stay loyal to his friends and not turn them in for killing Ben DiAngelo, or whether to turn them in and risk their friendship. Sometimes admitting the truth is hard, but it is the right thing to do. When Brady decides to tell the truth about how Ben DiAngelo died, he is forced with knowing that him and his friends may never be friends again. What pushed Brady to tell the truth is something that his dad told him. “Sometimes, even when the answer is smack in front of you, you got to reach deep inside yourself to act on it.” (pg. 163) This statement made

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