Crossing Fifty-One

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A week before Christmas 1951 Dr. Ralph Russell risked everything to voluntarily enter a locked federal drug-treatment facility known as a narcotic farm.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Sixty-five years later Dr. Russell's granddaughter Debbie suffers a debilitating crisis of identity when her father (Dr. Russell's oldest son) always her biggest fan is accepted into hospice.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Debbie's investigation into her paternal lineage reveals family secrets and ignites her mother's volatile outbursts propelling her into therapy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>When therapy fails her the grandfather Debbie never knew saves her and she collaborates with her dying father one last time to make her biggest dream come true.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Crossing Fifty-One</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> pulls back the curtain on the internal struggles of midlife and provides a blueprint for redefining one's self beyond the constraints of addiction and dysfunctional family dynamics.</span></p>