As You Are
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Last published Wed, Jul 10, 2019
Brooke Rivers is an 18 year black girl with dreams of becoming a journalist one day. She moves to San Fransisco to attend college and leaves her family in Nevada. She's been planning out each step of her life for as long as she can remember. How will her plans change when she crosses paths with Harry, another college student at the University not too far from her own?
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