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BANNED in Florida, because of how it deals with critical issues of race and racism, teen-aged sex, teen pregnancy, and abortion. A funny and sad story based on real events: Wrong race, wrong age. But a love that felt so right. A story that encapsulates the issues of today: a young woman fighting for a love in a society that forbids it; a story about race relations, hate crimes, and teen pregnancy. Angel-Louise wasn't supposed to fall in love with him. Her family, her age, her religion, and her race ruled against her having anything to do with him. But she couldn't help it -- even when she ...

A summer visit, a forbidden love -- her sister's boyfriend, not someone she chose or would choose, but whom fate and the magic of the fireflies choose for her. It's certainly a story that can't end well, this she knows, but against her better judgment, partly because this is the first time a man has ever been attracted to her as a woman, she is mesmerized and drawn to him as if his infatuation for her had a gravitation force of its own.