Temptations
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Brittany Cartwright is currently a junior in high school who is fixing to have her world turned upside down. With her parents separating, she is forced to leave the sunny beaches of Florida, where she has lived with her parents for the past sixteen years, to move back with her mom to her home state in Tennessee. Not looking forward to the big move, she wonders if she will fit in. What it will be like there? What temptations will arise? Will she give into them? Full of questions, she has mixed emotions and is full of uncertainty. The last two years of high school are a crucial time in a girl's life, what would you do if you were in her shoes?
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