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Hildy is thrilled when she and Connor become a couple. So much so, in fact, that she excuses his jealous and controlling behavior as love; her best friend perceptively characterizes the relationship as "a fascist dictatorship." Readers will want to shake Hildy for being so naive, but in her (surprisingly) funny diary-style narration, they may recognize their own friends--or themselves.