Land or Sea
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Land
Or sea
By Joy Phillips
Copyright 2019 by Joy Phillips
Cover photograph:Copyright 2019 by Victoria Phillips.
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This story is a work of fiction. Names, Characters, places and events are not real they are the author's imagination.
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Pearl is only seventeen, when she was forced to live her home in other to search for her missing parent, in a world where she is forced to hide her true identity. Will she be able figure out what happened that night?, that cause her parent disappearance. Will she find true love, after all she has been through?......
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