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Brianna drove out to Melvin Turner's place, which was near the old farm currently being transformed into the Star Bright Shelter for Teens. Suzanne Finnegan was the driving force behind the project, but many people were helping out with it. Brianna had sweet-talked the old farmer into offering most of the property to the shelter in exchange for free labor from the teenagers who would be staying there. He couldn't handle the place on his own anymore, and she didn't have time to provide all the help he needed.
Since Old Man Turner was the grumpy hermit type, he'd kept one remote corner of the farm to himself. It contained a few acres, a small house, a vegetable garden and a shed, which was all he claimed he needed.
She found him in the garden, untangling worn-out tomato plants from thei
