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Dulcie is 16 and her father, a custodian at her school, has just died from inhaling a poisonous combination of cleaning fumes. Her mother reacts to this tragedy by piling them in her dad’s old red truck and driving them across the country to settle in California. But Dulcie wants to go back east to her home in Connecticut where she plans to live with her grandfather, also a custodian at school. So she hops in the old red pickup and, without telling her mom, heads back east.

She begins “defining Dulcie” when she gets back to her old life and meets her Grandpa Frank’s new student assistant, Roxanne, sees the problems in Roxanne’s life and starts comparing them to her own life. They all find an interesting way to re-create their lives in new and different ways, while preserving all the good memories of the past.

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