Interior Penance
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MatureOngoing12h 5m
Last published Tue, Oct 24, 2017
Monica Meier is a "thirty something" lonely, successful career woman with a past and a promise. Daniel von Oehlschlager is a "twenty something" solitary guy with a checkered history and very little prospects. He, compelled to leave home in the Upper Peninsula and seek employment in the Big City, and she, a native Chicagoan, cascade into love on State Street in a chance meeting in a lacustrine, Chicago Christmas Eve blizzard. Will Monica's pact and the two other troubled men in her life keep them apart?
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