
What Matters Most(2001)
Sometimes Love Can Silence All Reason
Despite different backgrounds and disapproving parents, a working-class teen falls in love with the wealthy son of a prominent family in a small West Texas town.
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Despite different backgrounds and disapproving parents, a working-class teen falls in love with the wealthy son of a prominent family in a small West Texas town.
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2001-09-06
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Sometimes Love Can Silence All Reason
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