Stand Still
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MatureOngoing1h 12m
Last published Wed, Dec 18, 2019
Christen Collins, a world renown art curator/painter, is now known as a widow; stripped of her husband and child in a double homicide.
With the news shaking the quiet town of Raleigh North Carolina in the year 2023 and blank spots still filling her memory, will she be able to move on or will she be stuck in the news forever?
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