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"I needed time." My mother ran a hand through her hair.
"And what, it's not me, it's you?" She nodded, and I scoffed. "You're such a coward."
"We can have a happy life now," she pleaded.
"No," I said, my expression stone. "That's a life I never had, and a life I never will have."

Seventeen year old Veralene Forrest has spent her entire life living with her father and two brothers. Her mother ran away just a week after childbirth. Veralene was happy, popular in school, and carefree, except for the sore subject of what she thought was her mother's abandon. Things finally start to look up when Vera tries to make amends with her family after a life of resentment. Then, her father loses her job, and things go downhill from there. Vera, her brothers, and her best friends set off to find her mother, who might be just the remedy that the family needs.