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The teenage years can be a stressful time. However, for Lyssa Brunner, life is pretty smooth. She is an only child and has parents that cherish her and sees to it that she has the best of everything.
She is sixteen years old, a little shy, a little nerdy, and a lot naïve. She enjoys school, where she is a model student making good grades. She looks forward to attending book and chess club meetings, playing online video games, going to the occasional sci-fi or fantasy movie, and hanging with ...