Excerpt for Separate Peace by Sandra Lee, available in its entirety at Smashwords
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Separate
Peace
exemplifies the effects of post-traumatic stress and the varying
roads traveled to reach a common peaceful ground.
Emotional
survival is most often fated to healthy, automatic coping mechanisms.
In the absence thereof rests the alternative reliance upon practicing
learned behaviors. Because malfunction in the former suggests flaws
in the latter, born is the vital pre-exercise examination of
defaulted patterns.