Carry on, Little Soldier
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Last published Sat, Apr 29, 2017
Evelynn hasn't had a good run in her seventeen years of life. She has been floating around the darkness of the foster system for the past five years...what happened years before that she prefers not to talk about. Having PTSD, a haunting past, and a struggle to gain control over her own life, she has not been having a good time, at all. Things have been going smoothly for the past month, at least in Evelynn's mind, until the support group who she calls family ins brought into the light, or at least into the sights of a federal investigation; Bringing more unwanted chaos into Evelynn's life. All she wants to do is let the problems flow over, disappear. To finally fulfill her hopes and turn her life around and pursue her dreams with a peaceful and calm life that she has wanted since she was young, is that too much to ask? Well, apparently it is, way too much. Unless a light in Evelynn's darkness comes to help, but some things aren't all they may seem.
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