Sweet Valley Twins #21: Left Behind

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So I have a story. I walked by this antique shop after getting my morning bagel today, and they had several old books laid out. Guess what is officially an antique now? Sweet Valley Twins. So now I guess it's okay for everyone to display them prominently on your shelves again! And when people try to mock you, you can just scoff and say, “They're

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[ladyvorkosigan]

Damn, I thought for a moment there that Aunt Lillian would fall in love with the dad. Way to miss an obvious cliche, book.

[nanamik622]

Yeah, I was totally waiting for the end of the recap to say that Lillian and Dad fall in love and now poor Sarah has a mom again. Great recap.

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Way to miss an obvious cliche, book.
I was shocked my own self! I though SV ghostwriters would never miss a good cliche.

[_ocelott_]

...this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to comment on your Jayne avatar. AWESOME.

Will you marry me?

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They didn't let her go with aunt Lillian even though she had no roller skates? Geez, what is this world coming to?

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I know. It's a travesty. I'm writing a letter to my congressman about it.

[dramaturgy]

What ever happened to Janet? Did she appear in Sweet Valley High at all?

She was in eighth grade when the twins were in sixth, so if they were juniors in SVH (which I believe they were?) she would have already graduated. Or been repeating her senior year. Or in the big house for soliciting. Take your pick.

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Or in the big house for soliciting.
Pick!

I would've gone for repeating but then she would have been mentioned in SVH for sure.

[troubleinchina]

Now I want a Sleep Over with the Sweet Valley game, and I've never played it.

Is it fun? Is it deep and meaningful?

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Now I want a Sleep Over with the Sweet Valley game, and I've never played it.
If we ever have a 1bruce1 con, it will be a sleepover.

Is it fun? Is it deep and meaningful?
Of course! It'll change your life! You get to "be" either Liz, Jessica, Lila or Enid (naturally everyone tries to avoid Enid) and each character has a list of items they have to "collect" by going around the board and finding them (they are face down). It says a lot about the SVH philosophy on men that the "boyfriends" are the last piece you have to collect.

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Sarah was quite a regular in the twins series, but evidently fled Sweet Valley or got axe-murdered or something before high school. I liked your recap of this!

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She was? Why have I repressed her?

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Well, she wasn't a Janet Howell-level regular, but she wasn't just a one-shot. Later her dad married Sophia Rizzo's mum (Sophia being a delinquent) and there was Initial Angst followed by sisterly bonding. Then in the book where Liz does 'It's a Wonderful Life', she finds Sarah died from her fall in the bad Liz-less alternate reality. And it really upset me. Thinking over it now, it seems a bit odd Sarah would die from it, but then I don't know much about health.

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You would think she'd just be unconscious until she woke up and got help. But then Sarah wasn't the most proactive of characters in this book so maybe she would've just sat there and died from starvation or something.