The Art of Learning to Breathe
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Adelaine Colbert, a seventeen-year-old college dropout, family failure and socially awkward. After dropping out of college and destroying her parents' dreams and ambitions she has a plan. Get a job, earn a couple of pennies, and then move out from her home. It was simple. So how can something so simple turn out so complicated in minutes?
Things don't always go to plan especially when she finds out that she isn't the only one fighting for the job she so desperately needs. Adelaine is faced with a challenge for once, turning her whole life three hundred degrees around. She's left to play with fire but does she walk away before she burns herself? Or take a risk for once to feel happiness again?
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