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Although she was "[b]orn and raised in Purley, Texas" (p. 4), Jody Walker forsakes the only home she has ever known and chooses a road less traveled. Faced with a dead-end life and physical abuse, she takes a road certainly much different from that of her mother. When Bobby James, her husband of three months, strikes her across the face and then abandons her at a service station, 16-year-old Jody chooses to go off on her own rather than return to a place and a life that hold little hope. After a long bus ride, Jody arrives in Jackson Beach, Florida, and although no apparent future waits for...
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