Second Chance
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Last published Sat, Mar 21, 2015
Ana just wants to have what every other normal teenager has: popularity, success, and love. Unfortunately, everything for her is just out of reach. She has spent the past 18 miserable years of her foster life with the Conor family in South Shields, England with an abusive foster father and a foster mother thats too scared to defend herself and the ones she loves. Even though she hasn't experienced the true meaning of happiness much in her life, it doesn't mean she doesn't have big ambitions. Ana strives to become a professional ballet dancer and to attend Juilliard in New York. But will her foster family prevent her from reaching her goals? Or will Ana be able to finally find everything she ever dreamed of in life?
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