The Pursuit
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Millennial problems, check! Stalker, check! Living through a traumatic experience and regretting life choices, check and check! Maggie has the ever abundant deck of bad luck stacked against her. It's not until a mysterious man enters her life, and bed, that she wakes up and begins to find herself once again.
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