Innocence and Adolescence
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Innocence & Adolescence is the story of Kate Holloway who is really just a typical girl growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. She has two sisters, a best friend she loves to hang out with, and she's this bookworm that loves to read. But as she grows up, all these things start to change, and you really start to discover who Kate is as a person and as a young lady who's figuring out who she wants to be. The book jumps between these two frames of her life-her teenage days and then her adulthood-and the difference slowly grows until you look at her and say, "Wow. What happened."
And I think that's the biggest question for all of us. Who are we, and what are we going to become?
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