Giving Up
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Last published Tue, Apr 22, 2014
Fae Matthews is tired of living. After seven years in the hospital with stage two lung cancer and stage three leukemia, and all of the doctors telling her she's going to die in a certain amount of months, she has finally had it and just wants the doctors to pull her off of life support, but the doctors won't let her do that. Not without her parents permission. But then she meets Colby Mitchell, who is a survivor of stage three hodgkins lymphoma. Will they fall for each other or will they stay friends? And will Colby be able to change Fae's view of life and show her how to enjoy it when in the hospital or will she still want to stop the pain and give up on life?
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