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What happened to Ricky's friend Amber?


So what exactly is being hinted at? Like did Amber die becuase she wasn't tough enough or something that part confused me.

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I think the implication is that she may have either been very sick or she killed herself. Ricky says she started talking about death all the time and then one day she was dead. I imagine it has to do with the tough time kids go through while in the foster care/group home system. The scene works to convince Hector to stay with Ricky rather than turning him in. So I don't think she wasn't tough enough, just that she chose not to go on.

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I don't know if I'm remembering the conversation correctly, but didn't Ricky say that Amber was making accusations about her foster dad? I think that's what I heard anyway. If so, it's likely that either he was molesting her or she was accusing him falsely. She died after that. We don't know whether it was suicide, a natural death or maybe even murder.

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Yup, this is correct

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Yea that is what I heard too. I assumed she was being abused in some Waugh by her foster father and then died possibly murder.

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I remember Ricky saying that about her foster dad, and accusing him. How she died I don't know, but I got the feeling that maybe the foster dad killed her.

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The implication was that she was being abused, nobody believed her, she killed herself.

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