So the plea deal is her only good option, and she and Kamari live with Ms. Even Yvette's old friends won't help her. After Yvette's arrest, Nana decides she wants nothing to do with Kamari. Her mother, a crack addict, has been in and out of her life. Yvette is used to being abandoned by adults. Yvette is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, but she takes a plea deal to live with Kamari in a "professional parent home" in Norfolk, VA. When Kamari's father tells Yvette that she's been accused of snitching by a former friend, Yvette fights her ex-friend at a bus stop, cutting up her face. Gr 10 Up-It's 1989, and 16-year-old Yvette Simmons is living in the Douglas Gardens apartment complex in Newark, NJ, with her two-year-old baby, Kamari, and Nana, to whom she isn't related.
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