Honest Thinking
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Last published Sun, Apr 4, 2021
Riley Delta can't seem to keep her head above water.
As an art student lacking in inspiration and living off of sad minimun wage, she can barley keep up with her physical life, let alone her mental life. She's coping how she can, burying herself in shifts at The Rough Grind and surfing in between class, but some how her memories seem to always find a way to drown her in an ocean of anxiety, no matter how fast she swims away from them.
Jeremiah Rolend can't seem to focus on himself.
His family is never away from his thoughts, no matter how many times they tell him not to worry. He is weighted with a guilty conscience from his past, and moments from his present, only pushing through his college years at the request of his younger brother. He knows his problems are not his own, but he somehow he keeps taking them onto himself, no matter how much he knows he shouldn't.
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