My Gray, Your Neon
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Lily, pregnant, is recently abandoned by her ex-boyfriend who ran off after learning her pregnancy. Lack of sleep has caused her to experience episodic memory loss and these days she seems to have many things that she doesn't recall. Alone in her apartment, she meets Andrew, a new tenant who moved in down the hall. He is bright and adventurous. The exact mix of vibrant neon colors that Lily needed in her suffocating gray life. Yet there is something about Andrew, Lily cannot really pinpoint what, that makes him seem somewhat surreal. Perhaps it's all the coincidences, perhaps it's her memory loss, or perhaps it's the perfection that makes him seem too good to be real...
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