Home In The Morning
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Against the backdrop of Los Angeles, Benji Russells is a seventeen-year-old addict convinced of the ideas that there is nothing left in her worth saving and her older brother, TJ, should stop trying already. She knows how her story ends, after all: in the ocean, high. There's nothing he or anyone can do to change that. Nothing.
She's right.
Mostly.
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