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Margo Roth Spiegelman's Paper Towns

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Paper Towns is the story of two people named Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children, Quentin and Margo discovered a dead body, it drew them closer, they never really realized that. As they grew up however, they grew apart. Part I of the book starts in Jefferson High in Orlando, Florida in the early 2000s and introduces Quentin 's good friends, Radar and Ben Starling. In contrast, Margo is the most popular girl in school. The important part of the book starts in Chapter 3 when Margo sneaks into Quentin 's bedroom and asks him to help her with an eleven-part plan, which involves taking revenge on her ex-boyfriend.

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