The Truth About Forever. Nate listens to Annabel from Just Listen on the community radio. Nate is making gift bags with chocolate houses for a client, Queen Homes – Macy's mother in The Truth About Forever. Ruby first goes to Jackson High which is Scarlet and Haley's school in Someone Like You Caitlin's school in Dreamland, Macy's school in The Truth About Forever, Annabel's school in Just Listen, one of Auden's schools in Along for the Ride, and Mclean's new school in What Happened to Goodbye. Also it's the school that Sydney switches to in Saint Anything, and the one that Louna graduates from in Once and For All. Ruby goes to Perkins Day, which is Rogerson's school in Dreamland, the school Will Cash goes to in Just Listen, another of Auden's schools in Along for the Ride, and the school Sydney and Peyton attended in Saint Anything. At Cora and Jamie's party, Barbara Starr from This Lullaby appears as a client to Cora when she was going through a divorce. Olivia mentions that her cousin Laney was inspired to train for a marathon by Kiki Sparks from Keeping the Moon. Gervais is also mentioned in What Happened to Goodbye as "Gerv the Perv". Jamie enlisted Owen from Just Listen to help with Cora's CD music for Valentine's Day. Ruby applies to Defriese University, which was the university Auden went to at the end of Along for the Ride, and the basketball team Mclean and her dad loved in What Happened to Goodbye. The girls that visit the jewelry stand and look at the key necklaces are actually Mallory, Owen's little sister from Just Listen, and her friends who also mentions "her brother's girlfriend". The guy and girl Ruby's age who visit the jewelry stand are Kristy and Bert from The Truth About Forever, recognizable by the faint scars Ruby notices on Kristy's face and Bert's "Armegeddon Expo '06" T-Shirt. UMe.com is also mentioned in Once and For All, What Happened to Goodbye, Along for the Ride and The Moon and More. In Saint Anything, Jamie was mentioned as "an alumnus who founded the social networking site Ume.com". Motivations Sarah Dessen conducted an interview with the blog The Sarah Dessen Diarist. RUBY chose abuse and neglect as a key theme as she "...was really interested in taking on a different type of narrator. Most of my girls are from upper