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The Thief of Lost Time

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Reads 522
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Parts 54
Time 7h 44m

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1950s-childhood aging-parents alcoholic-parents coming-of-age distant-father dying-parents generalfiction literary-fiction middle-aged-child nursing-home-life remembering-the-past teenage-sexuality unlimitedpride wattys2019 womensfiction

Mark Aherne, a middle-aged man, receives an emergency phone call to come to his parents' home as soon as possible. Once there he can no longer avoid the fact that his elderly parents need help if they are to continue living independently. Over time, with equal amounts of love and irritation, he helps with their health problems, the onset of dementia, life in a nursing home, and death.

Meanwhile, he remembers his changing relationship with his parents throughout his childhood, his teenage years, and his life as a husband and father. Facing his own lost opportunities and the inexorable passage of time, he comes to realize that he's not so different from his parents as he once thought.

Mark comes face-to-face with a revelation about each parent's life, information that illuminates how a single moment has lifelong effects.All Rights Reserved

1950s-childhood aging-parents alcoholic-parents coming-of-age distant-father dying-parents generalfiction literary-fiction middle-aged-child nursing-home-life remembering-the-past teenage-sexuality unlimitedpride wattys2019 womensfiction

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Contrasting Similarities by CarterIsabelle

How can people be so similar yet so different? How can situations be strange yet so familiar? Twins Amira and Aurora were put under the custody of their mother when they were five. So much has happened since then. But what was the worst was the loss they've experienced. The sadness one of them has felt and the pain she has endured. They live for each other. They have their contrasts and their similarities. But one thing for sure is common. Priorities. The first priority is their other half. Their twin. But what happens when the situation leads them back to their brothers who were left in their biological father's custody? What happens when they finally receive the sibling love they couldn't give each other yet they both craved? What happens when they are forced to escape their own bubbles and experience what true care and affection is? And along the way, they discover the contrasting similarities, that help them heal and discover a different kind of love yet so similar. TW: Mentions of Abuse, Death and Schizophrenia.

Dream Daddy by StoryTellerByFire

Sean is trying to let go of the past, but he can't. After the death of his wife, he just doesn't have the heart to move on. Especially, when his eighteen year old daughter, Samantha, reminds him of her. He is happy being a single dad... but now his baby is dreaming about college. He knows he must let her go, but can he? He doesn't want to loose her too. Not even to the boy across the street, who has a father that is an absolute 'Dream Daddy'.

Change of plans by volleyballxcutie

Evelyn is finally convinced to go to a party by her best freind, Gabby, and her crush, Ryan. But after getting extremely drunk, Ryan and Evelyn have a hook-up that's the talk of the school by Monday. All of Evelyn's plans are changed when she finds out she's pregnant two weeks later. evelyn panics. What's she going to do with the baby? Is she going to drop out of school? What's he dad going to say? How is she going to deal with becoming a mother if she herself has no mother figure? And most importantly, is her baby going to have a dead-beat dad or Super Daddy?

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