"i would give my last dollar as your tip if i had to."
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IN WHICH a country
girl with big dreams
meets a celebrity
hockey player with
no plans on the
corner of fifth and
broadway one
wednesday morning.
(d2: the mighty ducks + beyond)
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OPAL STARR.. that's what her name would read in lights in just a few short years — or so she hoped. Life seemed pretty grim for the moment. Opal grew up in a two-bedroom apartment with her mother, older brother Judson, and three younger brothers. Her dad didn't walk out like most would expect, he died in combat when she was four years old. And while they struggled, for most of her life they made it fine; her mama working as a secretary and odd jobs on the weekends, subletting the apartment upstairs for an extra profit. That all changed the day the clouds rolled over Broadway — when mama Matilda caught the cancer somehow and couldn't work anymore. Opal moved on from primary caretaker to primary provider, alongside her brother Judson's illicit business. But busking the streets and her brother's pimping of ladies can only get you so far when there's six mouths to feed... there's such a thing as desperate measures. On the other side of the country, Guy Germaine and his hockey team representing the United States in the Junior Goodwill Games are riding out the high of their international win, being sent out on a press and goodwill tour across the country. 40 cities, nearly every state on the continent. But his path will cross with Opal in one place, and one place only — the corner of Fifth and Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee.
