I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now--which is ridiculous, since he\'s been dead for ninety years.
But Sym\'s un.
In fact, Oates is the secret confidant to whom she spills all her hopes and fears.
She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott\'s doomed expedition to the South Pole.
Sym is not your average teenage girl.
In ninety years I\'ll be dead, too, and the age difference won\'t matter.
But look at it this way.
I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now--which is ridiculous, since he\'s been dead for ninety years