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The polio epidemic has reached Fort Appleby, Texas, forcing the high school to close and sending families into their homes to escape the horrors of this disease. Seventeen-year-old Kevin Adams' best friend and football teammate, Jasper, is the first victim. As Kevin faces the possibility of his friend's death, he seeks relief in his love for Rosa, a classmates and his maid's daughter. But society forbids a relationship between Anglos and Mexic...
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