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Ace is depressed and suicidal. His own mother hated him, and walked out on his family because of him. His father is confused and doesn't really know what to do with him. His brother thinks he is crazy and needs therapy to "cure" or "fix" him. Some of his friends left him. No, scratch that. A LOT of his friends left him. His school doesn't respect him.
And who thinks is his closest friend, outs his self-harm to his father.
And this is all due to him being, well, transgender. His father would be okay with that, except, well, Ace seems a bit different from what his father knows transgender males to be. Ace identifies as gay, because he likes guys and not girls.
He thinks he can't go on, until one day, when someone new arrives. Blair, a new student, quickly becomes friends with Ace. But Ace still worries about something: will Blair accept Ace if he finds out the truth about him?
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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