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author of Sean's love letters; after seeing him leave the party with Lara, she sends him a suicide note before cutting her wrists in the dorm bathtub. Lauren, finding Sean with Lara, runs to the girls' bathroom in tears, only to find the unnamed girl's body, leaving Lauren extremely distressed. Sean, still believing Lauren wrote the purple letters, misinterprets the unnamed girl's suicide note and assumes Lauren never wants to be with him. Lauren decides to lose her virginity to her Art
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tells Sean he will never know her and abandons him. She approaches Victor, who has finally returned to Camden
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abuse are physically unwise, financially unlikely, and emotionally impossible. I do not censor their behavior but lament the movie's fascination with it." Ebert concluded his review by saying: "The inhabitants of
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of collegiate craving...Sex, drugs and rack 'n' ruin; pretty people doing nasty things to one another...honestly, what more could you want in a movie?".
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