This strange thing we call life
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Last published Thu, May 17, 2018
What's the point of life......
What are meant to do.....
Where are we meant to go...
Well to be honest who cares, I think it's about having fun and not giving af about what anyone cares about you.
Your just meant to live as long as you can, and as much as you can.
Scarlet is 18 and when one phone call from her best friend happens it changes her way of life dramatically, she's faced with many emotional thoughts, love, anger, hate, happiness and also death all because of one person.
But it isn't just mentally it was also physically, she starts doing things she never expected herself to do or say with a person she never expected to meet.
/Credit to Natasha Langerveld for cover/
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