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The soul of girl/woman Jenna is returned to normal at the end of the film, and the girl's knowledge about working as an adult editor on a magazine, the true nature of her chief junior high school tormenter, and Matt's worth as an older man make her a more mature thirteen-year-old, thus the delving into fantasy make the real world 'better,' as in "Midsummer," and more moral and thus more orderly than it was before. Jenna's old self is given new insight about what is right, and her thirty-year-old self benefits from her injection of youthful enthusiasm as Jenna as an "awkward 13-year-old who gets her wish and awakens as a 30-year-old" manages to "fix the empty life her shallow adult self has created" (Johns 2004).

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Thus in both the film and the play, the intervention of the supernatural improves the world, making it temporarily disorderly in a human way, only to bring it back to a greater state of moral order at the end. But the lessons learned about reality are not as neat as we might like to believe. Because the use of the supernatural convention of affection or body switching makes the viewer question how truthful his or her own affections are towards a beloved, and also how much age really matures the inner, wounded adolescent soul. Although these movies are fantasies and comedies, the lessons they teach are anything but fantastic, and are often sobering.

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