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In the wake of her mother’s death‚ Cheryl Strayed’s family scattered and her marriage was destroyed. Four years later‚ twenty-six years old with nothing to lose‚ Cheryl made a most impulsive decision: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert to Washington State — alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker and the trail was little more than an idea. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.

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