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Than to Have Never Loved at All

AnOctoberPepper

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Parts 31
Time 4h 57m

AnOctoberPepper

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When the Drama Club chooses "Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all," as the theme for their student-written one-acts, Josie Parker knows she needs to get a boyfriend and *fall madly in love* or her submission will never be chosen by the theater club. 

Step in Clinton Carter; sixteen-year-old boy-next-door with a crush the size of Jupiter. Josie takes her chance, but when love doesn't come as easily as she expects, she'll have to broaden her understanding of love, and face new truths about herself.

With an emphasis on the love between friends and the stumbles we make on the way to our truth, this YA novel speaks honestly about an Aro/Ace coming out experience.

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