Nevaeh Anderson Character Analysis

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Adverse, confusing, hopeless-they're all words that describe Nevaeh Anderson's life despite her wealthy upbringing.

She has a mile long list of all the boyfriends she's had, she has smoked and drank numerous times, and she has woken up in too many strangers' beds. To top it all off, she's only 17.

Her mother is too busy battling her own demons to scold her, and her father is too caught up in his work to notice that she's falling over the edge.

The only person who understands her, cares for her, and tries to stop her reckless behavior is her brother, Brendon Anderson.

Then, suddenly, horribly, tragically, Brendon is killed in a car crash by a drunk driver. It rips the family apart even more, so terribly that it lands Nevaeh's mom in a

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