Coffee & Flowers
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Between the daily "chores", that her stepmother, gives her, the relentless badgering of her stepsisters, Molly and Jenna, and school, Vanessa Charles doesn't often have time for the rest of the world. Her father, Ben, is quite un-attentive in her life, as he works in accounting. Her mother, Linda, has been comatose since Vanessa was six-years-old, making this the twelfth year without her beloved mom. Vanessa does everything in her power to visit her mother everyday, bringing her her favorite flower-sunflower-and a binder full of new stories she would write to read to her. But one day, as Vanessa misses the elevator on the way up to see her mother, knowing that she's already late, a friendly stranger holds the doors open to another one... but is it the last time she will meet him? Could he possibly handle her day-to-day life? I'm
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