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Ill Girl has been cut per TRS decision. Examples are moved to Delicate And Sickly when appropriate.


* IllGirl: Madeline. She can't even leave her house without risking her life. [[spoiler:Even when it's revealed that she actually has no inherent illness, her immune system remains fragile and underdeveloped due to her upbringing. It's uncertain exactly what this will entail, but a doctor theorizes she'll either get sick more often than normal people, or will be more likely to get severely sick.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Maddy mentions feeling lightheaded and heart pangs on their trip to Hawaii. [[spoiler: She's developing myocarditis.]]



* RedHerring: After leaving her house for the first time in seventeen years, Maddy gets severely ill and has to go to the hospital in Hawaii, [[spoiler: but it had nothing to do with her SCID. That's because she doesn't even have it; the illness was caused by myocarditis, which was probably influenced by her underdeveloped immune system.]]



* WhamEpisode: The chapter "For Your Eyes Only." [[spoiler:Madeline isn't really sick.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"I am not sick and I never have been."]]

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The chapter "For Your Eyes Only." [[spoiler:Madeline isn't may not be really sick.]]
** A little bit later, the chapter "Proof of Life" comes, in which Maddy [[spoiler: ransacks her mother's office, only to find no proof of a SCID diagnosis. When Pauline comes and Maddy sees how confused and delusional she is, Maddy then knows for sure that is not sick nor ever has been.]]
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** Sent in the email by Dr. Francis: [[spoiler: "I don't believe you have, or have ever had, SCID."]]
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[[spoiler:"I am not sick and I never have been."]]

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''Everything, Everything'' is a YoungAdult novel by Nicola Yoon. It tells the story about the DelicateAndSickly Madeline, who suffers from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. In plain English, she's so incredibly susceptible to infection and disease that she can't ever leave her hermetically sealed house or interact with anything unsanitized. She has close to no contact with anybody except her mother and her private nurse Carla.

But one day, a new family, the Brights, moves into the house next door, and Madeline becomes fascinated by the funny and handsome Olly, the teenage son of the household. Slowly, a friendship buds between the two...

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''Everything, Everything'' is a YoungAdult novel by Nicola Yoon. It tells the story about the DelicateAndSickly Madeline, who suffers from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency.Immunodeficiency (SCID). In plain English, she's so incredibly susceptible to infection and disease that she can't ever leave her hermetically sealed house or interact with anything unsanitized. She has close to no contact with anybody except her mother and her private nurse Carla.

But one day, a new family, the Brights, moves into the house next door, and Madeline becomes fascinated by the funny and handsome Olly, the teenage son of the household. Slowly, a A friendship quickly buds between the two...
two, but it rapidly grows into something more...



* DisappearedDad: When Madeline was very young, her dad and brother were killed in an accident by a truck driver.

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* DisappearedDad: When Madeline was very young, an infant, her dad and was killed alongside her brother were killed in an accident by a truck driver.



* FantasyForbiddingFather: Zach, a friend of Olly's in Maui, has parents who are very orthodox. They don't tolerate anything other than a traditional nuclear family and careers, and Zach hasn't even bothered telling that he's gay and wants to be a rockstar (or, in his words, "an African-American Freddie Mercury") because he knows they'll never accept him.



* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Pauline (Madeline's mom) lost her husband and her son in a car wreck when Madeline was only a baby. [[spoiler:This leads to her having a psychotic breakdown and concluding that Madeline has SCID, and needs to be protected from the entire world. Carla admits she always suspected Pauline wasn't ever quite sane after Madeline's father and brother died.]]
* TheOutsideWorld: Since Madeline hasn't left her house in seventeen years, she regards everything outside of it as being simply "Outside", capitalizing the word every time she mentions it.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Pauline (Madeline's mom) lost her husband and her son in a car wreck when Madeline was only a baby. [[spoiler:This leads to her having a psychotic breakdown and concluding that Madeline has SCID, and needs to be protected from the entire world. Carla admits she always suspected Pauline wasn't ever quite sane after Madeline's father and brother died.]]
* TheOutsideWorld: Since Madeline hasn't left her house in seventeen years, she regards everything outside of it as being simply "Outside", capitalizing the word every time most times she mentions it.it.
* PosthumousCharacter: Madeline's father and older brother died in a car crash shortly after she was born.


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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Madeline's father and brother died years before when she was just a baby, and, [[spoiler:before TheReveal]], are only mentioned a few times in the novel, [[spoiler:but their deaths caused Madeline's mother to have a psychotic breakdown and delude herself into believing that Madeline had SCID.]]

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Pauline (Madeline's mom) lost her husband and her son in a car wreck when Madeline was only a baby. [[spoiler:This leads to her deciding Madeline has SCID, and needs to be protected from the entire world. Carla admits she always suspected Pauline wasn't ever quite sane after Madeline's father and brother died.]]

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Pauline (Madeline's mom) lost her husband and her son in a car wreck when Madeline was only a baby. [[spoiler:This leads to her deciding having a psychotic breakdown and concluding that Madeline has SCID, and needs to be protected from the entire world. Carla admits she always suspected Pauline wasn't ever quite sane after Madeline's father and brother died.]]]]
* TheOutsideWorld: Since Madeline hasn't left her house in seventeen years, she regards everything outside of it as being simply "Outside", capitalizing the word every time she mentions it.

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* AdultFear:
** Pauline (Madeline's mom) lost her husband and her son in a car wreck when Madeline was only a baby. [[spoiler:This leads to her deciding Madeline has SCID, and needs to be protected from the entire world. Carla admits she always suspected Pauline wasn't ever quite sane after Madeline's father and brother died.]]
** The novel was inspired by the birth of the author's daughter, and the protective and maternal feelings that followed, which made the author wonder how far she'd be willing to go to protect her child, under the right circumstances.
** The idea of your child having an illness that could kill them if they go outside for even a moment. [[spoiler:Or, more accurately, your parent ''claiming'' you have such an illness...]]


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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Pauline (Madeline's mom) lost her husband and her son in a car wreck when Madeline was only a baby. [[spoiler:This leads to her deciding Madeline has SCID, and needs to be protected from the entire world. Carla admits she always suspected Pauline wasn't ever quite sane after Madeline's father and brother died.]]


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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The novel was inspired by the birth of the author's daughter, and the protective and maternal feelings that followed, which made the author wonder how far she'd be willing to go to protect her child, under the right circumstances.
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* MaskOfSanity: [[spoiler:Pauline never recovered from the deaths of her husband and son, and still suffers severe trauma and psychosis over it. Despite this, she managed to uphold her delusion over her daughter's illness to multiple people for ''seventeen years.'']]
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''Everything, Everything'' is a YoungAdult novel by Nicola Yoon. It tells the story about IllGirl Madeline, who suffers from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. In plain English, she's so incredibly susceptible to infection and disease that she can't ever leave her hermetically sealed house or interact with anything unsanitized. She has close to no contact with anybody except her mother and her private nurse Carla.

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''Everything, Everything'' is a YoungAdult novel by Nicola Yoon. It tells the story about IllGirl the DelicateAndSickly Madeline, who suffers from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. In plain English, she's so incredibly susceptible to infection and disease that she can't ever leave her hermetically sealed house or interact with anything unsanitized. She has close to no contact with anybody except her mother and her private nurse Carla.

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