Daphnye Luster was arrested for settling drugs when she was 16. And she was given a choice, to go to a juvenile prison or an outdoor program in the desert outside of Tuscon, Arizona. She chose the desert. She learned how to care for animals and drive an 1800s’-style horse-drawn wagon. She loved her time in the program, but in other ways it was hard, too. And she realized all this in an unlikely place.
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