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"Laura Carnahan Hamby, high school senior, victim of rape, is shunned by her friends and labeled damaged goods by her mother. She strikes out on her own. She settles in a small New Jersy town where she waits tables, earns her GED and secures a position in a hospital medical records department. Bruce, her old boy friend, tracks her down. They marry.... After several years of marriage, Laura and Bruce want to have a child, but she is unable to conceive. Laura's fallopian tubes are severely damaged. The doctor believes that one of the boys who raped Larua gave her a sexually transmitted disease...."--Page 4 of cover.