ENDURE
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NYC Set - Book I
Aicel Gillian Sanchez, a woman with a traumatic past, decided that it is the right time to move to a new place, the city of dreams - New York City. Leaving the past behind, she enrolled in a ballet school where her life made a 180-degree turn.
Will she be able to ENDURE it?
"If I can make it here. I can make it anywhere, that's what they say. Seeing my face or my name in marquees found down on Broadway." - Empire State of Mind (Part II)
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