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Lodestone

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Time 4h 9m

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Ben Harper is a high school senior and a native of a sleepy Chicago suburb in the hectic days of the early '90s. Through a pair of essays for college applications, he explores what it means to be a high school senior, the awkward time between teenager and adult. He finds the definitions he's put himself in to be too restricting, and so Ben is forced into a journey of loss and self-discovery, and what it means to be incomplete, along with his longtime best friend, Samantha Hayes, who has already had to readjust herself after a car crash takes one of her legs. 

As they adjust to their new life, they are faced with challenges around every corner in their struggle for a normal life.Sam is, perhaps, the only one who sees both the good and bad, the joys and pains in young Ben, and it is she who will force him to decide what he wants most in the world.All Rights Reserved

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