Will you hold me? | cavetown
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Claire has anxiety and is an extremely introverted person. She decides it's a good idea to go off to college to do an animal care course to fulfil her dream of becoming an assistance dog trainer.
While she's there, her friend Ray decides to help her try to manage her anxiety better and help her when she needs it. But life with mental illness isn't all sunshine and rainbows, will they be able to get through this together?
TW: anxiety attacks, violence, medication side effects.
Word count: 20,687
Started on: 14/08/19
Completed on: 31/12/19
While this book doesn't have Robbie in, each chapter has one of his songs dedicated to it. There is either a hidden meaning in that chapter that relates to the song or it's pretty obvious how it relates. For example, a chapter in the book with his song 'this is home' Claire talks about how she doesn't like being asexual ("often I am upset I cannot fall in love).
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