Finding Home
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Last published Sun, Nov 25, 2018
15 year old Valerie is dumped by her long-time boyfriend and told her mother's long struggle with pancreas cancer has ended within the same week. Her parents had been divorced since she was 9, so she now has to move back to a small town in Oregon with her dad that she grew up in. When she moves back, does her past engulf her, or is it a fresh start?
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