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From the first part of Wild, I couldn't stop my eyes following the lines. The strong affection of Cheryl towards her mother fascinated me. Meanwhile, at the same time, I was also shocked at the story after her mother's death, especially the scene that she was absorbed into a bad spiral to have sex with Joe and take Heroin and the fact that she divorced with Paul though they still love each other. As I kept reading, the story showed a link with the title Wild. At first, Cheryl didn't know how to hike at all, then she put too much luggage into Monster which became so heavy that at first she wasn't able to carry it, but day by day of PCT she gradually got used to hiking as she get dirty, messy and hurt physically and had many encounters. She could make her partner Monster much lighter, became far from the woman who was caught in Heroin and sex. Following her changes made me feel like diving into the story. I'm still in the beginning part of chapter 8 and I cannot imagine what's coming up the next and what she will become.