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Summary Of John Green's An Abundance Of Katherines
The book titled "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green is a story about a washed up child prodigy named Colin Singleton who is distraught by the 19 breakups of his girlfriends in his life strangely all named Katherines. He then travels with his Muslim friend away from the bustling city and into the rural areas of Tennessee to escape the pain from his recent breakup as well recover from it until he felt better enough to go back to the way it supposed to be. As he recovered, he worked on a theorem that mathematically explained why he broke up with each of his 19 girlfriends. He also met a girl named Lindsey Lee Wells who is as well intelligent and kind-hearted to her friends. But in the middle of his stay at Gutshot, he noticed that he's
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