Bittersweet Existence
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Last published Sat, Jan 10, 2015
June. Her mother, father and her only sister had died in a car crash. But not only that. She died as well. From the inside, she was dead. She felt nothing. And everynight, she went on the road, and threw stones in the sky, aiming at the stars. She works in
a coffee shop and earns just enough to make a living. She harms herself, cries herself to sleep and never smiles. She's become something she'd never thought she'd be.
But.
Her story turns when a boy enters her life. He's just the opposite of June. Energetic, playfully perverted, doesn't care about life and lives in the moment. Will he, make June love again? Will he make June person she was before?
Will they face the hurdles together and make their life sweet from bittersweet?
Will he save June Addington's life?
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