One More Last Chance

Dawn Anita Diffie a young na?ve country girl from Oklahoma runs away from home at the age of sixteen to marry her sweetheart Jerry Plumlee. Boarding a bus bound for Seattle with only $5.00 to her name she volunteers her story to total strangers. A smooth-talking Californian tells her You're welcome to come to my apartment and freshen up since you have an eight hour layover in LA. Unwary she happily relates the offer to Jerry by phone and he informs her You get back on that bus sit behind the driver and don't talk to anyone until you get to Seattle. A quick wedding before the Justice of the Peace leads to a long and lasting marriage filled with love and turmoil as they struggle to survive. They celebrate love mourn loss and share many victories and disappointments but they are always there for each other through even the most turbulent times.Their adventurous spirit takes them from Seattle to a small isolated log cabin in the mountains of Idaho where they are stranded in a snow storm for more than two months with nothing to eat but the fourteen loaves of bread they baked in their wood stove. The small cabin becomes cramped after two months and unrest leads to a fight. Desperate to make a point Dawn Anita jumps into a snow bank stark naked while Jerry looks on laughing as she lies sizzling in the snow. They journey back to Oklahoma to a remote 1700 acre ranch facing the perils of snakes scorpions wasps rats and wild cows. Always willing to try the unknown these two set out on a hazardous journey from Oklahoma to Idaho with their two-week old son and wind up stranded in Idaho with no money food or shelter. Overcoming many obstacles their journey leads them back to Oklahoma where he is the foreman on a huge cattle ranch and she finds a career as a secretary in a law firm.With a family whose heritage is richly steeped in music she yearns to find her place in country music only to discover when the opportunity presents itself for her to sig