Young adult novel word count

I really appreciate this post, my novel is , right in the middle of most! Hand counting would have been very painful. Okay, am I getting off track? Your word limits are absolutely what I hear all the time, and what I would aim for. This is how I understand the way word count is […]
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Racheal:
I am very comfortable around him, and he knows everything about me.
(25 February 2019)

Racheal:
We still act as if we are in a relationship, and neither of us (to my knowledge) have talked to another person.
(25 February 2019)

Racheal:
Around a year ago I asked him if he wanted to be in a relationship.
(25 February 2019)

Racheal:
We started sleeping with each other and behaving as a couple.
(25 February 2019)

Racheal:
We stopped talking for a year, and then reconnected as friends.
(25 February 2019)

Racheal:
Me and my ex boyfriend broke up almost three years ago.
(25 February 2019)

Marian:
Dealing with an unavailable guy whose hot and cold plus breadcrumbing.?
(25 February 2019)

Marian:
If I walk will it seem like I'm ghosting?
(25 February 2019)

Giuseppina:
How can twins be born weeks and months apart and still be twins?
(25 February 2019)

Giuseppina:
The last time I checked twins are one of two children or animals born at the same time so twins can't be born weeks and months apart and still be born at the same time.
(25 February 2019)