The year is 1985: Ronald Reagan is president, big hair is all the rage, and Madonna is burning up the pop charts.

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In the Elmwood section of Southwest Philadelphia, Catholic schoolgirl Janet Kramer keeps a diary.

Through her words, she paints vignettes of her life in this isolated corner of the city,

a life centered around her close-knit, blue-collar family; her loyal friends; her high school;

and her true love, the son of an Elmwood mobster.

Beyond her family’s row home on Reedland Street, Janet’s world is hardly idyllic:

a mall shooting breaks out in the Philadelphia suburbs, racial tensions boil over into Elmwood’s streets,

a space shuttle explodes, a mob war erupts in Elmwood, and a Soviet nuclear reactor melts down.

Janet documents it all in her diary as her life moves against a backdrop of a new era in Elmwood and in the world.

No matter what changes it brings, her heart and soul will forever remain in 1980s Elmwood. In a world that is gone.

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