Finding It There
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~ I never even said goodbye. I woke up...and she was gone ~
Holly wakes up from a coma after a tragic accident to find her mother gone, and her entire world is turned upside down. Holly goes off to live with her estranged father in northern Michigan, hours from the only home she's ever known. As she struggles with her grief in her dark new world, she has trouble finding a reason to go on. The world has turned its back on her.
But with the help of some unlikely allies, including a boy with Asperger's, the eccentric lady next door, and a cowardly Saint Bernard named Apollo, Holly starts to feel again, and begins to find the value her life holds.
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