Chances & Changes
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Last published Fri, Feb 1, 2019
This is a story of how pain and suffering can turn into love and redemption.
Kayla Jones is a girl who has lost her best friend, her mother. She lost her drive to be happy & fell into deep depression; shutting the world around her out. New friends, who have deep secrets also, are brought into her life and slowly help her get back to the girl she used to be. But will these newly formed relationships bring her out if this dark place she's been in for so long before it's too late? Or will they all get end up making matters worse.
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