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Part I (Pages 1 - 63)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Wetmore, Elizabeth. Valentine. Harper, New York, 2020.

• This book is written in the present tense and in a mix of the present and past tenses.

• The first chapter is titled Gloria, and it begins with 14-year-old Gloria Ramirez waking up on Sunday morning, February 15, after being brutally raped and beaten by a man she met the night before, Dale Strickland.

• Gloria is out in the oil patch somewhere outside of her town of Odessa, Texas. Dale Strickland is still asleep in his pickup truck and Gloria is on the ground outside.

• Gloria is terrified for her life, knowing that if Dale was not so hungover from drinking the night before he may have already killed her.

• Gloria knows she has to get away from Dale while he sleeps but she is in...

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