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When I heard Sarah Darer Littman speak to her readers via video chat last winter, I wanted to get my hands on WANT TO GO PRIVATE? immediately. She spoke about a recent news story where the police rescued a teen girl from an Internet predator before they crossed the Canadian border. Only, the thing is, the teen girl didn't see it as a rescue. She had
wanted to go with the guy because she was in love with him. Sarah said she wondered what would have to happen for a teenager to get to that point -- the point of climbing into a car with a complete stranger and running away with him.
Willingly.
I tried to answer that question myself. I racked my brain and played out dozens of different scenarios in my mind, but I still couldn't understand why a teen girl would agree to meet a stranger she met online. All I could come up with was that she must have been stupid. A smart girl would never do something like that.
That news story compelled Sarah to find out as well. Through conversations with the police and FBI, she found out it wasn't stupidity at all.
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Wow. I remember when I was in the ninth grade and one of my friends at the time had these conversations with this older guy and she felt like he understood her and everything. This was before the Internet. I also remember two years later her mother calling me asking if I knew where this guy was as apparently B. had left with him. I thought she was dumb to do something like that but then again I could see how if you're not really social and want a boyfriend(I know when I was 15 that all I'd fantasy about) and some older, cute guy tells you what you want to hear, yeah, it would be tempting to believe it.
I need to read this book! Sounds like a winner!
Kim, you have to read it!