[SJackson]

She says she "very, very modestly" hopes her book will have some of the influence of two books about girls caught up in the Holocaust: Lois Lowry's novel Number the Stars and Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank.

That's the only thing in the USA Today article Debbie cites. The bold from Debbie's article appears no where in the article.

And Bush has the audacity to tell USA Today that she envisions her teen-single-mother-with-AIDS book as having the same influence as Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank. She compares her book and its topic to two books on the Holocaust, including Frank's. She even named her single-teen-mother-with-AIDS heroine Ana, a Latino version of Anne.

I'm skeptical, but it would be nice if it had as big ana impact as Anne Frank's diary, but there's no comparison there between AIDs sufferers or single mothers and victims of the Holocaust. Nor any indication she named her heroine Ana because of Anne Frank. Unless there's another interview out there Debbie forgot to cite, her charges are fabricated. Not to mention very, very modestly" hopes morphs into envisions.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

All I know is, everyone is hyper-hyper sensitive about anything remotely touching the issue of homosexuality and it's accompanying disease (yes, heterosexuals can get it too, but that's not why it's special).

I thought it did sound like a comparison.