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", but for everything I could feel finally gathered up inside of me;" page 310
This was an important quote in the book because at the beginning of the trail she couldn't feel anything because she had lost so much and felt so lonely. Now when she says this, she can finally feel everything she is feeling because she isn't lonely anymore, she has found herself again by the end of the trail and she feels very accomplished.

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I recommend this book because she really did a good job explaining her past life and her present life. You really feel like you are on the journey with her and that you were with her when she went through her crazy past. You make a really good connection with her and all of the characters throughout the book.

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Strayed's motivation to go on this journey was to just be on her own for once and to do something for herself and no one else. She was very hesitant to go on this trail at first and wanted to give up many times on her journey, but she used all of her anger and hate from her past, to help push her and motivate her to keep going on this crazy journey.

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Cheryl Strayed- main character
Barbara (Bobbi)- Cheryl's mother
Eddie- Cheryl's step father
Paul- Cheryl's ex- husband
Joe- the man who introduced her to heroin
Lisa- her good friend in Portland who was in charge of sending Strayed's supply boxes to each location.
Greg- The first person Cheryl met on the PCT.
Stacey- the first other women Strayed met on the PCT
Doug and Tom- she met them and they all three became best friends on the PCT and Doug gave her a lucky feather that she carried for the rest of the trip.
Jonathan- someone Strayed got with in Ashland.
Rick, Richie, and Josh- young hikers she met in Oregon that she kept in touch with after the trail.

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Cheryl Strayed finds out her mom has cancer, her brother and sister stop talking to their family, and she gets a divorce. She decides she needs to go on a journey to get away from her old life and start a new life on the Pacific Crest Trail. On her journey, she meets new friends and makes new memories.

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Strayed took this journey in 1995 and hiked through the Mojave Desert, to California, then to Oregon, and finally through the Bridge of the Gods into Washington.