Why do I feel a multiple personality is somehow involved? It just keeps knocking on the door. Does anyone else feel somehow it is in the story?

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Amanda N. I believe that the diary entries actually belonged to Amber(Taylor). I believe that she wrote the entires in the perspective of who she wanted to be and what she wished her life could be, what i mean by this is. Amber Taylor is actually the girl who has the abusive parents and Claire is the one with the loving parents. But when she writes in her diary she imagines herself in Claire’s shoes and Claire in hers. She mentally switch roles. So when the diary is read it’s as if it was “written” by Claire. Because she so badly wanted the life she lived, she imagined herself “Taylor” as the fortunate one and “Claire” as the unfortunate. Taylor mentioned when their parents passed they didn’t save much of anything from her childhood, but they saved a ton for Claire. Again, i believe that’s because Claire was their biological child and Taylor was the adopted child who burnt down her parents house. The entry she tore out the book that said “Taylor told me to” was actually her literally telling herself to do it. And again in her diary she’s not who she portrays her self to be. There’s so many subtle details that leads me to believe that this is the case, The parents leaving Claire the childhood home, the envy Taylor had for Claire all her life, that’s why she killed her and took her kids. Also, there was a few times that it was said for Taylor to stop lying. This woman believed in her lie for so long that it became her reality.

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