She is seventeen years old in the prime of her life and feels immortal because she has a long life to live, so decision making is not not based on careful planning but on emotions, peer pressure and fantasies. A teenage girl's risk-taking usually comes from a lack of judgment, why would America make the decision to leave the comfort of home to go to a country primarily frequented by the men of her town? Why did she go with the most unlikely candidate, her brother-in-law? In adversity her first desire was her mother's touch, her food and her home, the fragile little girl in her cries for maternal touch when times are hard because that's what she's used to, mom who manages the