What If I Say Goodbye?
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Depression
Most people think it's being sad. In reality it's drowning in your thoughts. Your brain makes you think you aren't good enough,nothing you do is right, and it's a sadness that you drown in. There's no fighting it. Medicine might help, but it always comes back. It wraps its dark hands around you and pulls you deeper and deeper, till you crack.
Echo deals with depression. A senior in high school, she is the emo outcast in school and her family. Her mother and twin sister are both famous dancers, and her father writes novels all day.
Early one morning she meets Liam, a boy like her. But can he save her? Or will her monsters win, sending her to the grave, to join Helena.
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