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Last published Mon, Mar 30, 2015
Maria Lake is an average senior in high school. She has her friends and she has her enemies. But, when her mother commits suicide and her father becomes abusive and begins drinking, how much does that really change her? She hides behind a fake smile everyday and even her closest friend doesn't know her whole family home life.
But when a high school delinquent named Alex Cooper transfers, will he help Maria escape the dark pits of depression? Or will she end up like her mother?
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