Against the Odds
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Complete Sun, Aug 2, 202023m
Vanessa and James. Two souls that have gone through thick and thin together for six years. Anyone who met them would have thought that they would be with one another until the very end. Happily ever after seemed like a concept they were all too familiar with.
That was, until James left Vanessa.
Distraught that she had been abandoned, twenty-three year old Vanessa must learn how to navigate through life without relying on someone else to experience happiness. She must learn that the key to her happiness lies in no one's hands but her own.
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