"It's not the scars on your body that really matter. It's the ones that are left on your soul. They are the ones that don't go away."
Teenagers Julie, Heather, and Petra are grappling with the choices they face growing up on Long Island amid the social revolution of the late 1960s. Julie struggles to be heard in an unsympathetic home. Heather feels that she is a burden to the people in her life, especially her single mother. Petra moves with her family to a town where she finds she is not quite welcome because of an unknown past.
When the girls find a tin box filled with letters from...
"It's not the scars on your body that really matter. It's the ones that are left on your soul. They are the ones that don't go away."
Tilly smiled softly and took Lottie's smooth hand in her wrinkled one. "Child, sometimes we make plans for our lives. We says, 'I choose this.' But forces in this world take those choices away from us. Then we's got to look around and see what we got left. You see, there is one choice nobody and nothin' can take away from you." "What's that, Tilly?" "You's got the choice to either let what's happened crush you into being nothin' or you can choose to rise above it and survive and thrive in spite of anythin' that life throws at you." When Julie Ventura, from The Tin Box Secret, falls into a...
Tilly smiled softly and took Lottie's smooth hand in her wrinkled one. "Child, sometimes we make plans for our lives. We says, 'I choose this.' But fo...
