She is a seventeen year old in her prime who feels immortal because she has a long life to live, so decision making is not based on careful planning but on emotions, peer pressure peers and fantasies. Adolescent risk-taking normally stems from poor judgment, why would America make the decision to leave the comforts of home to travel to a country traveled primarily by men from its hometown? Why did she leave with the most unlikely candidate, her brother-in-law? In adversity her first longing was for her mother's touch, her food and her home, the fragile little girl who cries for her mother's touch when times are hard because that's what she's used to, the mother who manages The