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[[Image:amelia-d.jpg|left|frame|Daria and Amelia at the reunion]]
Amelia saw herself and Daria as having a lot in common. In fact, the main reason Amelia came to the reunion was so that she could meet Daria again.
Whereas Daria only came to Grizzly the once, Amelia went for an unknown number of years (she says "since I've been coming to this camp") and loathed it.
She idolized Daria as the ultimate rebel, though many of Daria's "rebellious" acts during her stay at [[Camp Grizzly]] could be explained through either bad luck or Daria being ostracised. She's stunned when Daria reveals the truth behind some events - she didn't boycott the End-of-Summer campfire but wasn't invited - but in other cases, like Daria's horse running off and tossing her, Amelia ''had'' known the truth at the time but somehow remembered it as Daria being cool. Amelia's adoration of Daria is so great that when [[Jane Lane|Jane]] refers to Amelia as "Daria having a secret fan club," Amelia takes the statement literally and assumes that Daria has an ''actual'' fan club.
In Amelia's imagination, both she and Daria are examples of independent people "not following the crowd"... or at least she wanted to ''be'' an independent person that didn't follow the crowd. She later admits that she always did what people like [[Skip Stevens]] told her to do, whether she wanted to do it or not, out of fear of social rejection.
When Daria tells Amelia that she doesn't have to follow [[Skip Stevens|Skip's]] planned agenda for the Camp Grizzly reunion, Amelia tells Daria that she wants to hang out with her. Daria tires of Amelia's clinginess and points out that Amelia has done nothing but follow Daria around since her arrival. Daria tells Amelia that she not only doesn't want to follow a crowd around, she doesn't want to gather a crowd, either. She suggests Amelia go practice being an individual somewhere else. Amelia angrily turns against Daria, telling her she's learned the truth: Daria doesn't like ''anybody''.
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