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I want to dedicate this book to my beautiful and gentle-hearted young niece, Jenna. This lovely girl is at that terrifying age right now where she’s no longer the little girl of the family but she’s still not quite a self-reliant woman of the world. During these last couple of years, she’s had to make a lot of difficult choices. Hard ones that most teens face when they’re growing up and moving into their twenties. Jenna faces these challenges in such a brave way that she has made me so very proud.