On her weddin=%`g@ d?$;ay, Or*?ton Ree-d is a= b+=and ]one!d, sl/
app,e.)d, and hu#miliat#[ed in fr-o)n-?%t: !#of e!$ver@yone, all+ beca]+us)e her f)[%.rag;-]ile stepsiste. r ))=Lucy is hav@@ing! a;$nothe]*r][ cri[+sis. Her_ fiancé Cole, her childhood) friend Ryan, and ev+en he_r_( biologica\l [@parents a,!ll c*:.ho:@!o#%se Lucy over her. After disc@overing she is serious- ly ill, Ort[on ^[\finally ))stops begging to be lo]ved. @She le ^a_+ve(s New York fo$?r a remo te sch[$o!^ol ,in `New Mexico, where she :teach)/es, heals, %)and learns$(= to [live for herself. When * !the peopl/#,:e wh%o h)`]urt her c*?ome bac] k with apo+logies, Orton no longer
wants a plac-^e i_`@n their l/?iv@%es.