Love, Amor, Amour
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"A deep feeling of affection and sexual attachment."
That's all Mina has - words stolen from a dictionary. How will she earn an apprenticeship at Luckman Inc. if she can't write an essay on what true love is? It has been a week, and she has yet to come up with anything more to submit for Luck's magazine written contest. Her career depended on this lift.
Usually, Mina is at the top of her game, writing about things she's never done. Why is this so hard for her, writing about love? About all the gut-wrenching, string-pulling, heart-throbbing that goes along with it?
Perhaps Mina starts to realize it's because she's never been in love?
She already performs a delicate balancing act between her family and her career. Now, she has decided that she will add falling in love into the mix.
This could change everything.
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2nd| LitWits Awards
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