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E Choices We Make August / Septem ber 2 012 e Choices We Make Where We Belong more to them than friendship. OCTAVIA BOOKS The tension and intensity are Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six 513 Octavia Street palpable, as we examine the year old television producer, New Orleans, LA 70115 values that lie at the heart of our living her dream in New York 504-899-READ (7323) most intimate relationships, and City. With a fulfi lling career and octaviabooks.com the choices we make when lives satisfying relationship, she has [email protected] are at stake and everything is on convinced everyone, including the line. STORE HOURS herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one Open 10 am - 6 pm The Sandcastle Girls Monday - Saturday night, Marian answers a knock on the door . only to fi nd Sunday 12 Noon - 5 pm Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past Through fourteen previous best-selling stories, like that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. 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