For years upon years upon years, Lemon had been mourning the death of her son. One day, she broke, and became a shell of the loving, warm, and sensitive person she once was. She soon got emitted to an asylum, and there her assigned therapist told her that to begin to heal, she needed to write a letter to her dead son to close things up with him and therefore come into peace. She did what she was told, and she wrote a letter to the boy. The next morning, when she woke up, there was a note, a letter, sitting on her desk. It read in fancy swirling letters on the front Lemon's name. When she opened the letter, she found that it's signed by her dead son. This is the series of their letters towards each other, and how their relationship progresses until the inevitable.
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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