Eighteen-year-old Vera Dietz is struggling to finish her senior year in high school while working forty hours a week as a pizza deliverer. Vera's dad, a recovering alcoholic, is in Vera's words "parsimonious," or frugal. Intent upon making sure his daughter does not make the same mistakes in life that he and his wife did, he constantly pushes her to work and save so that she can pay her way through college. Vera's mother, who gave birth to Vera as a teenager and was employed as a stripper for a time to make ends meet, ran away with another man six years ago. Her mother "doesn't...
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