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Complete, First published Apr 09, 2020
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At age 26, Lavender doesn't have anything she wants. She has a crappy job, a crappy family and an even crappier boss. But one thing in her life is perfect: her boyfriend.

But one day she gets a random text from a stranger telling her to grow up, things start to escalate sharply. Who is this guy and why does he care about Lavender? And not to mention, her best friend Jeremy and sister Pastel start an 'Operation Grow Up Lav' which irritates her further.

As things start to take a comical turn, Lavender receives shocking discoveries- from secret feelings to childhood memories. And when an underlying truth from the past is uncovered, she begins to think if she knew herself at all...

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•1st prize in WOD Awards in the Chicklit/Humour genre.
•2nd prize in the Summer Smoothie Awards in the Chicklit genre
•2nd prize in the Constellations Awards in the Chicklit genre
•3rd prize in the Hard Work Awards in the Chicklit genre.

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Praise for "Need A Friend"

"I love the plot, the creativity, the way you use your words, in fact everything."----@I_write_romance, My Hard Work Awards.

".....it kinda personally attacked me at points but honestly, I had real tears in the ending and gawd, was it amazing! Amazing would be less to say. [It was] something, I don't know, magical and just out of the world." ---Mithila(@RatnaDas1), Beta Reader.

"The story is really good. I love how Lav[the protagonist] just get the text anonymously from a random dude and the story idea is really unique.. the characters are good and relatable!"-----@Aesthetically_Lazy, Library Reviews.

"The storyline is based upon how Lavender tries to grow up and discover what the meaning of friends is....we can see the characters get enhanced with every chapter."----- Zainab, (@__Carrots__), The Reader's POV:Review Book.

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