Rule #9: I will heed the warnings of my inner voice
Dr. Lenita Mae Faulkner has come a long way from her dirt-poor beginnings in Madoosa County. But her dream of marriage and family explodes when Ralph, her nine-year live-in lover, skips out in the middle of their romantic candlelit dinner, empties their joint bank account, and runs off with another woman.
Rule #7: I will never again go fetch the beer
Called back to Madoosa by a true family catastrophe, Lenny is home again at the lowest point of her once-charmed life. But a forgotten piece of her pastβa diary she kept in the fifth grade containing a list of rules she had created to live byβis spurring her on to get out and start livingβand lovingβagain.
Rule #3: I will follow my dreams
Look out world, because Lenita Mae is coming on strong once more . . . and this time, it will be according to her own rules!
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