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“Gracie C. McKeever (c) November 2011
Marissa Rogers and Julia Ferrar are the best and unlikeliest of friends. Marissa has a mother who thinks she's too fat and Julia comes from a well-off household with doting parents. While Marissa is perfectly happy being behind-the-scenes and a peacekeeper, beautiful and charasimatic Julia enjoys the spotlight and being the center of attention. Marissa has dreams of becoming the editor-in-chief of a big-time New York magazine and Julia wants to be a ballerina. As the years pass, each woman achieves a measures of peripheral success in her chosen field, but nothing can threaten the bond between them until a tragic automobile accident leaves Julia brain damaged, that is.
As Julia's personality undergoes drastic changes, Marissa falls into her usual role of nurturer and caretaker, but with some differences. Marissa is a different person now than she was as a teen, one who knows her friend's faults and weaknesses as well as her strengths. She is no longer willing to lie down and let Julia run the show or ruin her life again bringing up a past love that Marissa would rather forget, especially now that she is safely ensconced in a relationship with a loving and wonderful man she can count on and call her own.
This was a funny and sensitive story about the power of forgiveness and the ties that bind us all, but especially those ties between friends. ”
Gracie wrote this review Saturday, December 10, 2011.
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