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Miyax was looking for Point Hope so she could board a ship to go live in San Francisco with her pen pal Amy. She was unhappily married to a mentally retarded boy who tried to rape her. In an attempt to get away from him, she ran away and got lost on the tundra. The wolves helped her learn about the tundra and how to survive.

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