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    Motherless Child Seeks Answers The Secret Life of Bees is set in the segregated South in 1964 and revolves around Lilly, a  young ,white, motherless teenager.   Lilly is running away from an abusive father with  her closet friend and ally, Rosaleen.  This involves a jailbreak that Lilly instigates.   They travel to a town in South Carolina hoping to find some answers about her mother.   Lilly is struggling with her ‘guilt’ over the accidental shooting death of her mother when she…