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The desperate fight is described very movingly in this fictionalized account of the siege and fall of the Etzion Bloc.  Afterward Tonia makes a great sacrifice in order to realize her dream. She moves to Grand Rapids, Michigan in the US, hoping her family will follow her. 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New friends help the healing process, while she continues her search for the two people she loves, who have disappeared from her life. She finds the greatest solace in helping fugitive slaves escape over the river to Canada. 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So Charlene is going home to what is now an empty house.\u003cbr\u003e Two things make this long, hot summer bearable: Reeves Valenti - the high school sweetheart she left behind - and the lawyer who unexpectedly knocks on her door, bringing information about the woman she idolizes - her great-great-great Aunt Olivia Killion. Charlene can't wait to get Olivia's journals from him and finally learn what happened to Olivia and her friend and partner Mourning Free; she doesn't know that the answer to that question will deepen the connection she feels to Olivia and bring a new person -- and a fundamental change -- into her life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eIs It Autobiographical?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e No. Just for fun, I gave Charlene the shell of my life. I grew up in the Foundation, attended Edsel Ford High School, and began my college education in Ann Arbor. So on paper, Charlene and I have a lot in common. In fact, am I anything like her? 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