What's Normal?
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A 16-year-old girl, Sam, with a horrifying background and unfortunate lifestyle, uses her school as a distraction of her thoughts. Sam was always known as the shy girl who talks to herself but that all changed when a severely sophisticated group of people from mixed backgrounds invite her to sit with them at lunch and hang out after school. After becoming friends with them her life began to be better until it all comes flooding back but, this time it's ten times worse than ever before...
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