As You Are
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Last published Tue, Jul 22, 2014
The happy-go-lucky Mia Steed is waiting to reach her peak. That moment in life where you know that you are the absolute best version of yourself. Working around her unspoken dark past and a less than fortunate relationship with a less than satisfactory man, Mia is travelling the path of self discovery. Finding a new guy wasn't really part of the plan. Crushing on the guy wasn't either. But what's worse than someone you can't have? Someone who doesn't want you back.
Even with her positive thinking and ability to let loose, Mia will face her biggest obstacles. And optimism may just be her downfall.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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