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“A garden is a metaphor for life at almost every level.” As “Secrets of the Italian Gardener” by Andrew Crofts offers gardening metaphor after gardening metaphor, this weighty quote is a natural place to begin.

“Paper towns” is the choice of words to describe the very lifestyle of consumerist people whose every intent in life is based on the conjecture of monetary and social gain. Paper people could be described as people who are living, but not truly alive.