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The Consequences of Freedom Author: Susan Wiggs Jessie Ryder has lived a life free of repercussions until now. She has followed her dreams, her career as a photojournalist, leaving family and friends and lovers behind, living for the moment, un-tethered. All that is coming to a necessary end now, her own body rebelling against her. Now she is thinking, regretting, looking back over her life, and crashing into the settled lives of those around her. Sixteen years ago, Jessie gave up a child and her devoted sister, Luz, gave up her own dreams in order to adopt and raise that child. [...]