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This story is about a girl named Joellen and her parents are divorced and tells you how she lives with each parent.
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The story takes place between two houses 42 miles apart in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Joellen is the main character she is a 12 year old girl, her mom and dad, her cousin Hayeden and her 2 friends Tamika and Annie.
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Up until this year her parents only lived 4 blocks apart. Her parents have been divorced since she was a baby.
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Now her parents have moved 42 miles apart and her dad lives on a farm and her mom lives in the city.
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Jellen loves being with her mom in the city, she likes going to the movies, she likes going to baseball games, and she loves her mom's modern apartment.
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What Joellen dose not like about being with her mom in the city is her mom's rules and all the time ambulances go by.
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What Joellen likes about her dad and the country is riding horses, cooking with her dad, and she likes that he has no rules.
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Joellen dose not dislike any thing about her dad and the country but at night she misses the city.
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Joellen feels torn beetween two worlds and feels she has to be two different people.
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Joellen is turning 13 and she want both of her worlds to meet.
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Joellen decides to be what she calls 'the new me'
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She wants everybody to call her by her real name Joellen.
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Instead of missing her friends recital or judo competition she cancels her weekend with her dad.
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The new Joellen askes her dad if she can have her city friends out to the farm once a month.
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She can now tell her mom how she can cook with her dad
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Joellen says '"i like this girl the new me."
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She tells her friends not to say the word 'hick' any more.
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Hayden from the country gets told the city is more than just crime and dirt and that there are also good things in the city that you wouls not expect.
