In fact, all of Shay's friends did: "But my friends and I stopped doing that kind of stuff a long time ago" (5.23). When Tally wants to see Shay's face options, Shay says she stopped making optional pretty faces when she was young. (No playing with unrealistic Barbie dolls for Shay.) In fact, she seems like she's almost always been a skeptic. By the time we meet Shay, she's already a big skeptic about the whole pretty surgery thing-and we never get any story about why she's so against the pretty surgery. We don't get to see Shay's thoughts the same way that we see Tally's thoughts and growth. But whereas Tally wants to be pretty, Shay wants to rebel against the whole pretty system-but maybe not for quite the right reasons. Shay is a lot like Tally in some ways: they're both alone, they're both around the same age, and they both like breaking the rules. Shay likes to leap before she looks, and sometimes she doesn't look at all.
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