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The Wildflowers: ..
1 Misty ..
2 Star ..
3 Jade ..
4 Cat ..
5 Into the Garden
"Tears are more private than smiles.... Why should I share anything with these girls?" Jade had listened to Misty and Star tell their stories. Now it is her time to speak. But she can't. For while the others in Dr. Marlowe's therapy group had exposed their hidden pains and secret pasts, they are nothing like Jade. They don't know what it is like to be a pawn in a courtroom battle too hateful to ever forgive.
Or that escaping the madness had lured Jade into an ordeal too traumatic
to forget....
When I looked at these other girls for the first time... I realized that no one was happy to be here. Not one of us had come willingly.... Yesterday, Star talked about times in her life when it felt like it was raining pain. I knew what she meant. Our worlds were very different, but similar clouds had come rolling in and we were under an identical downpour of anger and hate drenching us in our parents' madness. I guess we were all just people who had been caught in the same flood and had been pulled onto the same raft, now tossing and turning, all of us looking desperately for an end to the storm....
Setting: California, 1990s
© 1999 by the Vanda General Partnership. Published by Pocket Books of New York. Cover design by Tony Greco, front cover illustration by Lisa Falkenstern. 166 pages.
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Jade
