Ally and Shawn

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Ally, a 16-year-old girl falls into a situation by taking a swim across the river where she and her family are camping for the night. She witnesses a young boy chased, shot at and possibly drowning. She finds him bruised and beaten in the water; a bullet had hit him in the arm. They gave each other their name while hanging onto a root up under the bank where Shawn had gone into the river. Ally asks Shawn if he is okay and he nods that he is. Shawn, like Ally is 16. He has gone through a lot of hardship in his young life. When the abuse Shawn has had to endure becomes too much he runs away to save his life. Ally and Shawn swim across the river together to the biggest adventure they would ever know. Ally’s family Molly and Dave are in for a big surprise as well.

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