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Grace

This character was adopted by her parents when she was an infant. This character gets pregnant in high school and decides to give her baby up for adoption, but she hopes to remain at least tangentially involved in her child's life if possible. This character discovers by the end of the text that while there are instructive lessons to be learned from the past, it is also crucially important to keep one's eye focused on the future and the creation of one's own fulfilling life.

Maya

This character is one of the three main characters. She experiences a painful break-up with her girlfriend at one point in the narrative, and she ends up finding her birth aunt, rather than her birth mother, since her birth mother has unfortunately already passed on.

Joaquin

This character is the only male among the novel's three main characters. This character has spent...

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