Kendra Ryder just gave fifteen year old Frankie Dexter a slab of fresh-cut tulipwood along with the advice, "When you’re feeling bad, just scuff the wood with 120-grit sandpaper."
Marty Humphrey doesn't finish things. A European backpacking adventure was cut short, when he became morbidly homesick on the flight across the Atlantic, and now he's dropped out of college.
Maddie Timberland just finished reading A.E. Coppard’s The Field of Mustard. The single mother's personal circumstances mirror the plot but only up to a certain fixed point.
A year out of high school, Clarissa, who couldn't even score a date for the senior prom, is into tantric sex, Pablo Neruda and orgasms bordering on divine rapture. And she's still a virgin!