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Theres someone named Ryle (not a typo).
The made-up term floral shop is thrown around constantly.
And the main character goes through a phase where shes strangely obsessed with Ellen DeGeneres.
If youre a casual viewer, youd be reasonably baffled, but there is an explanation sort of.
The diary entries, as they appear in the novel, all begin with the salutation Dear Ellen.
She just … likes her.
Maybe teenage Lily is just disassociating because her home life is, to put it lightly, traumatic.
A cheerful celebrity whose brand centered around kindness and humor mightve been a way for Lily to cope.
It Ends With Uswants to be a lot of things on both page and screen.
At least its notalsoa movie where audiences have to hear Dear Ellen read aloud constantly in voice-over.
