Underneath
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Ongoing6m
Last published Sun, Jul 19, 2020
Your long time best friend, Everett Langley, starts to become more than "just a friend", but he has a lot of personal issues related to recent trauma neither you or him have discovered yet. This flowering journey really displays a romantic and coming-of-age genre type, but also shows the raw reality of mental illness associated with grief and loss.
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