As a teenager, Kendra James had a crush on the actor Orlando Bloom. She decorated her room with pictures of him, she wrote stories imagining a romance with him, and she joined a message board dedicated entirely to him. 

One day, someone on the message board had an idea to make contact with Orlando Bloom himself. 

Kendra James’s book is Admissions: A Memoir Of Surviving Boarding School.

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