Merryweather
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It began with an old bike.
Bound to a small monotonous town by a promise she made, Penelope has no option but to put up with her alcoholic, violent mother, and to continue work at a store even smaller than her pay check.
Then she meets George Simmons who brings colour into her otherwise drab life, but sometimes even the best things don't last forever.
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