After her last foster home, Eldria is done with foster homes, but her social worker pushes her to try a new family. Eldria is not sure . Not sure with her new foster family, school, or next-door neighbor. Eldria mom had wrote one thing in the back of her book, "Be down to earth, but still imagine, and be free" but who can someone do that? Eldria always asked her, her mother would have smiled, patted her head and said 'You'll learn and when you do, i'll be there, in the book with you" now, it was up to Eldria to fin out how to find it. now that her mom has passed, as Stella said it, it was up to Eldria to make a life of her own, and make her mother proud.
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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