Starting Small
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Last published Sun, Dec 5, 2021
At seventeen, Ashlynn Monroe, lives alone in a quaint studio apartment on the outskirts of Granite Hills, Washington. Every weekday she goes to high school in the morning and takes online college classes at night. On the weekends she goes to New York to run her multi-billion dollar company. She has never told anyone about her wealth because she doesn't want anyone in her life there for her money.
Ashlynn's parents are nonexistent, she has been living on her own since she was 8. Well... except for the tiny puppy she found on the streets a couple of months ago.
Follow Ashlynn as she starts her life small, but it's getting bigger...
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