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West Hampshire Colony 1698

Catherine Hatchet is a poor misunderstood girl in the American colonies. All she wants to do is get an education like a boy, but this continuously leads to her being beaten and whipped. Life was hard for a girl way back then! She throws a rock at one of their heads Then She runs home to her parents, who threaten to beat her too. She is called Bad Luck Catherine, because she was born under a bad moon

Bad luck Catherine. She Then finds her only true friend an old lady who lives by herself in a home in the woods. The old lady makes Catherine feel better, and she cheerfully goes back into town, only to be accosted by the Parker brothers. Joseph, the youngest, is mad apparently she killed his pig by “looking at it. He Then starts making out with her, and telling her sweet things. Until the bad bad moon came out

Shadyside 1995

Here we go to present times where we follow Bryan. He is bitter and jealous because his best friend Alan and girlfriend Misty are both rich, and he is poor. He then becomes obsessed with a beautiful car he wants to buy, a Cataluna. Of course he can’t afford to buy it, so he gets part time jobs to help with that.. And he treats his girlfriend like crazy because she’s rich, even though she’s sweet and doesn’t care they come from different backgrounds.

He takes the Cataluna for a test drive one day, and hears a young woman’s voice. He tries to find her and in the process crashes the car. The car is miraculously unscratched. He decides to amplify his savings for the down payment by stealing from people. Which is not a good idea.

West Hampshire Colony 1698

The Bad luck Catherine , with the handsome boyfriend, are not doing so well in the the seventeenth century. The villagers have decided she is the reason for all their bad luck, and she must be exiled or hung. Her parents claim she isn’t their child at all, but only turned up on their doorstep as a baby. That is weird. Catherine

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