When tragedy strikes, forcing them down separate paths in 1967 Iowa, former nursing school roommates, against all odds, form a decades-long friendship that sees them through life's trials and tribulations until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads. 1967: BettyKay has risked her family’s disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a painful secret. As nursing school roommates they don’t have much in common-- except a determination to prove themselves in a changing world. Before their first year is up, tragedy strikes. They are forced apart: a decades-long friendship forms, but comes to a crossroads one snowy night. Fifty years later, two estranged sisters are shocked when a famous movie star shows up at their mother's funeral. The women must reckon with a dazzling truth about their family that will alter their lives forever. -- adapted from back cover
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