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"You died because of your addiction," I glared down at my hands. "Yet, I was born because of it, and I don't know how to feel about that. I don't know how to feel about most things."
Amelia Ingridson, an individual with a stubborn mind, sarcastically humorous tongue, and a heart that doesn't understand the world. She lives as an observer, set in a comfortable life on the sidelines.
But everyone has a story, and most have secrets--whether of ourselves, or others.
When her grandpa uproots them to move closer to family, her reasonably comfortable life is flipped into something that she doesn't know.
Her cousin Daniel and his friends, Kyle, Dolan, Cooper, and the experiences she gains from being in their band, help teach her to see reality from more than a perspective of self-blame and pity, and more from the messiness and the beauty that is within it.
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**trigger warning for talk of addiction/drugs, eating disorders, and mental illness**
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