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Last published Tue, Jun 4, 2019
"I met Henry when I turned 16. He had just transferred to my school, and when you live in a small town where everyone knows each other, he was hard to miss. The new kid from New York. The new kid who people stared at in wonder, like he was an exhibit in a museum.
I noticed him from afar. I was the social pariah. The girl who came from the wrong side of the tracks. The girl whose mother is responsible for divorces. The father who lives in a bar. The girl who people will go out of their way to avoid. The girl who is a garbage can in the museum."
Lia and Henry had the kind of love that people write about. The love that no one would expect. They had it all. Until they didn't.
Broken and lost, can Lia overcome the heartbreak and learn to love again?
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