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Family
In A Year Down Yonder, Mary Alice has to leave one branch of her family (her mom, dad, and brother) to live with another (Grandma Dowdel). Even though she's still with family, the transition isn't exactly smooth, and Mary Alice finds herself feeling terribly alone…at first.
During her year with Grandma Dowdel, Mary Alice comes to better understand and care for her larger-than-life grandmother, and in the end, Grandma Dowdel is just as important and close to Mary Alice as her immediate family. In fact, they're so close that Grandma Dowdel's house feels like the right place to get married, and Grandma Dowdel feels like the perfect person to give Mary Alice away.
If Joey had come along with Mary Alice to spend the year at Grandma Dowdel's, Mary Alice never would have become so close to her grandmother—or grown up so much.
If Mary Alice had fit in better at school, she would have spent more time with her peers and her relationship with her grandmother wouldn't have been as important to her.
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