Pretty When You Cry
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Last published Sun, May 6, 2018
Aliya Preston is boring. Never skipped a class, never been to a party, never even kissed a boy. She likes her "dull" life. Her parents had moved her to a small town, just off the coast of Vancouver? where she meets a boy, who pulls her out of her dim shell.
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