lullaby for an insomniac
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Last published Sat, Mar 15, 2014
17 year old Adelaine has been in foster care for two years. After her mom leaving her when she was only five, and loosing her dad to a drunk driver she looses the satisfaction of sleep. But what happens when she turns 18? When she can finally leave the foster families and start a life of her own. She runs into a familiar face, changing her world she thought she knew.
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