Although Sheba is experiencing hard times with her brother Trevor's death, Leo is in a tough situation himself. Leo had married Starla, and had since separated and divorced. Starla became mentally ill, and Leo had to leave her. He simply could not take care of her anymore, and left. As Leo had married Starla, long time friends Molly and Chad married each other as well. But, Molly was feeling as Leo, and wanted to get away from her philandering husband. Leo proclaims his love for Molly and tries to win her over. Their relationship grows tighter as the gang drops everything they have to travel to San Francisco to try to find Trevor through his AIDS battle.
The book continues to battl with different struggles that everyone faced during the 60's and 80's. The book is about to flashback again to the 60's and compare the hard times the group of friends face as high school students and adults of the real world. High school gives them problems like cute girls, relationships, and the big Friday night football games. But now, in the 80's, real life has thrown at them the problem of handling jobs, battling AIDS, and even the hardships of realtionsihps with spouses.
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