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Product Description: Twenty-four-year-old elementary school-teacher Annie Harper is left behind in Tacoma, Washington, when her boyfriend, David, is shipped overseas. Wrestling with the complex emotions tied to his absence, She begins writing a confessional memoir, imagining it as a moving account of "the woman at home...read more

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