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Basketball is Not Life

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Renee Renner has left Durham, North Carolina, to get away from basketball, but she is thrown for a surprise when she finds out her new roommate is none other than Parker Baer, Michigan-States All American Basketball player. She clashes heads with him as she fights to come to terms with what has happened in her past.


*Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. All characters appearing in this work are a work of fiction.All Rights Reserved

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