ICARUS
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Oh, the glamour, and the trauma, and the fucking melodrama.
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Inspired by Melodrama, by Lorde, & Young and Beautiful, by Lana Del Rey.
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In which William Carmichael, alias ICARUS, realizes that Ridgeview Academy is as ugly as it is beautiful, and the only way to save his wings is to burn them.
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