Empowering Self-Discovery for [Target Audience]

I carefully packed up my grandmother's tea cup collection and my mother's china. I then retrieved a violin from the back of my closet, which always made me cry, and a gold necklace with a dolphin pendant that my father had given me two weeks before he passed away from a heart attack when I was twelve. With the moon shining brightly at midnight, I left Chicago.

Stopping at The Opera Man's Cafe in Weltana, Oregon, Jeanne Stewart decides to indulge in pancakes for the first time in twelve years. Little does she know, she is also about to order a whole new future. It had only been a week since she experienced a very public nervous breakdown in front of a large audience of advertising and PR professionals. Jeanne had her reasons for the meltdown - her mother's recent passing, the devastating discovery of her boyfriend's infidelity with multiple women, and the resulting assault charges she faced after retaliating in a unique way involving condoms and peanut oil.

En route to her brother's house in Portland, Jeanne impulsively chooses to spend some time in picturesque Weltana. She stays at a B&B run by the eccentric and endearing Rosvita and meets a group of unique new friends through her court-ordered Anger Management classes. Like Jeanne, they are all striving to become better versions of themselves. However, Jeanne's most surprising revelations are yet to come - a kind man who gradually captures her heart and a run-down house that, with love and care, could become entirely her own, much like the new life she is gradually piecing together.

A heartwarming and humorous novel, The Last Time I Was Me is a wise and touching story about breaking down, opening up, and finally letting go of the expectations society places on us, in order to embrace the life that has been waiting for us all along.

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