The sister of Sam's father, she was just a child when Dwayne was killed in the war, and consequently she never knew him. Donna and her husband live with Mawmaw and Pap Hughes.
Dawn is Sam's age, her best friend, the person most like her in the novel. Together, they do things that teenaged girls do, such as piercing each other's ears, shopping at the mall, and dreaming about leaving their small town and becoming famous in music videos. When Dawn finds out that she is pregnant, though, Sam begins to worry about the approach of adulthood: she foresees Dawn marrying her boyfriend and giving up her dreams to stay at home in a cheap apartment and raise the baby. It is not a situation that Sam wants to relate to.....
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