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It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. 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