Love and Other Four Letter Words

Samantha “Sammie” Davis is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in the college town, Ithaca, New York. The life surrounding her is one, so she thinks, that is filled with mediocrity. She is the only child of an art teacher mother and Cornell professor father. Her best friend, Kitty, is beautiful, skinny, smart and has a boyfriend. Compared to her, Sammie describes herself as “absolutely, completely average,” not having her dashing looks, flirting ability or her soap opera love life. However, just when she thinks that her world cannot get any more uneventful, she finds that her parents are beginning a trial separation. The family had planned to go to California together as Sammie’s father was going on Sabbatical, but now her father is going alone. Sammie and her mother will be moving to New York City for the year. Sammie is devastated by this sudden news, and being closest and most similar to her father, feels deserted.