What We Once Were
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Ongoing18m
Last published Sat, Jun 2, 2018
People are the reason for sadness, happiness, anger, and all other emotions that are felt.
A story in which a boy learns to love himself and that it wasn't his fault.
A story in which a girl learns she's not alone and that she never was.
Follow me on this journey in which these two heartbroken souls learn to love themselves and evidently each other again.
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