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Donna is seeing Mary once a week. Sometimes the meetings seem more social than professional. Carol and Willie often show up to complicate things. Donna is earning only $20 a week while her rent is $35 a week. She gets another part-time job at a food shop. All she has to eat is discarded food from the shop each day. Donna graduates from high school with average to high marks but she fears what her future holds. To her surprise, one of her classmates writes her after graduation telling her how her struggles and success had inspired her. Donna is deeply moved.

After graduation, Donna stops her sessions with Mary but promises to keep in touch. Donna, without a job and an unknown future, enrolls in a university. By the time hear second year begins, Donna is enrolled in the School...