Looking in a Different Direction
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Last published Tue, Dec 26, 2017
This is the story of a normal teenage girl who lived with her single mother in NYC. Amber Williams and her mother lived a life of serenity on 68th Street. Amber was popular in school and her mother's job paid her over $100K a year. It seemed as if nothing could go wrong...until Amber's mother was involved in a perilous accident on her way to work. In the morning of another normal school day, Amber receives a call that her mother is indeed in the hospital and is fighting for her life. Upon her mother's demise, Amber has no other choice but to live with her stepfather, an alcoholic living in the poorest area of Jersey City. What will happen to Amber? Will she stay in the path she was raised in, or change because of the environment she now has to live in? Find out more in LOOKING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION...
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