How would you feel if you were living in a prison from birth, to age 12. In the year3040, as soon as your born, your parents have 30 mins. To name you and tell you goodbye. As soon as their time is up, you and 100 other infants are shipped to OakLand Homes. This is where you will spend the rest of your 12 years, or your whole life if you are among the unfortunate ones. The day you turn 12, your original parents have two options. Show or don't show. If they show, you get to leave OakLand Homes and live the rest of your life in the real world. If they don't show, you have to stay at OakLand homes for the rest of your life. From 12:01 am to 11:59 pm (one whole day) on the day you turn twelve is the only time you have for your parents to arrive and take you home. If you are left behind, you become a member of OakLand Home's staff, with a new torture every day.......
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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