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Mary A. Robison

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3 picks · 1979–1986

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Trying
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Bridie O'Donell is a 17-year-old day student at St. Benedict's whose home is in northern Virginia, not far from Washington, D.C. Bridie is friendly…

I Am Twenty-One
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Narrator is writing a final-exam question when she hears a ringing in her earsNshe doesn't know if it is from diet pills or too much tea or too much …

Independence Day
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Helen is staying at her father's summer house in Port Brent, a lakeside resort town in Ohio. Her estranged husband, Terry, is in Detroit. Helen and her…