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,u@[rn her into!* th/?@e sch[/;@oo$$..l\%'s laughin. gstock to@ i)*:mpre:ss Savannah].#= :$She vanishes to California, where a n+@ ew school, re[[al frie +.:nds, and a-! .gentl;e cap!tain help her become so;;me*, o_;;ne the old.%.# Ele-*anor never dared to be. Wh@e n= Leo f@.inal,ly tra +c@ks _h e](-*r d] :own, his a?-]pology*(. comes too _late—she has already built a%  new life with :\
no ^room fo;r him.