Picking Up The Broken Pieces
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When your life falls apart, you're faced with the question -
Do you run from it all? Or do you face it?
Fight? Or flight?
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Ashley, your average 17 year old teenage girl, is struck with the news of her mother's death, a day after her 17th birthday. Only a month after the news, and With a lifetime ahead of her, Ashley chooses to leave behind the memories and hurt, and begin her new life, in a small coastal town not far from the city she was brought up in.
Along the way, she encounters the true meaning of life and what hers is worth.
However, after a horrifying discovery; once again Ashley's life is turned upside down and she's left isolated, this time, with no way of piecing her life back together.
Does she stay? Or does she go?
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