A Long Way To Go
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MatureOngoing3h 44m
Last published Wed, Mar 8, 2017
As Julie pulls up to the therapeutic boarding school over a thousand miles from home, she knows that everything in her past is about to catch up to her. She finds herself amidst a new group of peers and mentors, but when you've hit rock bottom at sixteen-years-old, who can you trust to help you climb back on top? It can't be the people who let you fall in the first place. Learning to love, trust and forgive may not be in her repertoire, but when you're in the middle of nowhere, why not try it?
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