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At the height of the Carter-Reagan election, a 10-year-old girl, Alex, imagines experiencing a future with a female President.
A broken hearted teen, Erica, unleashes her romantic fury by writing her ex a 24-page letter.
A girl in the 1970s, Rhonda, wrestles with who she ought to be in pages of her journals after reading a book about being a proper young woman, The Fascinating Girl.
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