A Year Around the Sun
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  • Reads 727,060
  • Votes 17,222
  • Parts 42
  • Time 10h 21m
Complete, First published Sep 10, 2014
"This is a story about our love. An intoxicating, fast-paced love that didn't think of time as a source of measurement over the course of a summer that changed my life forever. 
    
"A love that resembled a firework. It went up with a bang - outbursts of colors, sounds and emotion - but only out with a short fizzle. An outline of smoke, with the ashes on the ground as the only telltale sign that we actually had something."
    
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