The Wandering
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You gotta love Ari. She's something between evil genius and the innocent girl next door. she is driven by emotions, obsessed with following her heart. yet her mind works extra hours, calculating, analyzing.
Ari is 22, it's the end of September. a few weeks after breaking up with her boyfriend Matt, after two years together, Ari is building her life back. It takes just one phone call and a familiar voice to turn everything upside down.
"You sound surprised.. as if it was your dead father calling you." he humors.
"I think I'd be less confused if it had been him calling than you."
the timing was always wrong for the two, and then again when Alex called her - time didn't matter.
throwing each other back in time, to old jokes, childhood memories, and lost feelings, Ari and Alex have to live with the mistakes they've made and face the problems they're about to cause. old fears, dreams, and secrets surfacing, and cannot be ignored anymore. Between losing yourself completely to finding everything you've ever wanted,
You know... life is what happens when you're busy making plans...
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