![]() ![]() ![]() Further suicides were added to the group stories. In November 2015, a Russian teenager posted a selfie with the caption "nya bye" before dying by suicide her death was then discussed in internet forums and groups, becoming mixed with scare stories and folklore. Claims of suicides connected to the game have been reported worldwide, but none have been confirmed. However, the piece was later criticised for attempting to make a causal link where none existed, and none of the suicides were found to be a result of the group activities. "Blue Whale" first attracted news coverage in May 2016 in an article in the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta that linked many unrelated child suicides to membership of group "F57" on the Russian-based VK social network. It is a "game" reportedly consisting of a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators over a 50-day period, initially innocuous before introducing elements of self-harm and the final challenge requiring the player to kill themselves. The woman, who Addie thought was crazy, had told Addie she was her Christmas angel." Blue Whale" ( Russian: Синий кит, romanized: Siniy kit), also known as the " Blue Whale Challenge", is a social network phenomenon dating from 2016 that is claimed to exist in several countries. Addie tracked down the person who purchased the pig and discovered an elderly lady whom she had waited on earlier that day at Starbucks. At the pet store, Addie learned Nathan had accidentally already sold the pig. In order to prove she has learned her lesson, Addie went to Pet World to pick up Tegan’s new pet pig, even though Nathan, a boy whom Addie did not like, worked there. In “the patron saint of pigs,” Addie has to learn the hard lesson that everything was not always about her. ![]() At the restaurant, however, Tobin realized he was more interested in the Duke than the cheerleaders. Believing he was in the middle of heaven, Keun had shared his good luck with Tobin and invited him to come as well. The cheerleaders had walked from the train to the Waffle House where Tobin’s friend Keun was working. Fourteen cheerleaders on their way to a competition had also been on the train on which Jubilee had been riding. On a Christmas Eve night trek through a blizzard, Tobin noticed the Duke was increasingly frustrated by his references to cheerleaders. In “a cheertastic christmas miracle,” the Duke and Tobin had always been close despite the fact she was a girl and he was a boy. Jubilee never expected the walk from the train to a nearby Waffle House would lead her to a new love. Instead of getting to Florida, however, the train was caught in a blizzard near a town called Gracetown. In “the jubilee express,” the authors do not capitalize chapter titles, when Jubilee’s parents were arrested Christmas Eve for being part of a riot, Jubilee had to take a train to her grandparents’ house in Florida. A bad snowstorm has hit the area changing the landscape and causing the train on which Jubilee, along with fourteen cheerleaders from Pennsylvania are riding. The stories are set in Gracetown beginning Christmas Eve night. Three interconnected love stories in the novel Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories by Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle, combine a blizzard, cheerleaders, broken hearts and girl-crazy guys to result in unlikely Christmas miracles. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Green, John Myracle, Lauren Johnson, Maureen. ![]()
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