A long Road Back Home
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What would you do if you found if you found out you only had weeks/months left to live where would you go?
That's the life of 17 year old Riley Essence who has cancer and is in a group home since being abandoned when she was younger.
She is a senior in high school and is trying to get into a good college and only thing that she wants in life is a family will she get it? will she fall in love? and will she survive? read and find out
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