Ruby however knows that it is best not to trust anyone other than herself and decides to run away as soon as Jamie and Cora have gone to bed the first night. Jamie grew up with the idyllic life of a close-knit family and traditional holidays and he wants to share that with Cora and Ruby. She holds her life together for a short time but her landlord discovers that her mother is missing and child services steps in, sending Ruby to live with Cora and her husband, dot-com millionaire Jamie Hunter. Then, just six months short of her eighteenth birthday, Ruby's mother disappears. A series of erratic moves and a number of sub-standard rent houses along with her mother's abusive behavior becomes the core of Ruby's life for the next years. She initially calls but the girls soon lose touch. Ruby's sister Cora stands between Ruby and her mother, literally, for the next two years until Cora turns eighteen and goes away to college. When Ruby is five, her father leaves and her mother, suffering from alcoholism, a lack of self-esteem, and abandonment issues, begins a series of dead-end jobs, erratic moves, and abuse.
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