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The Way We Were

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college comingofage friendship growingup highschool journey newadult summervacation travel youngadult youth

When 9 friends travel to Tybee Island to celebrate their final months together before they go their separate ways, no one could predict it would end the way it did. Love, loss, regret, betrayal, maybe they didn't know each other they way they thought they did. Will their friendship be saved by the summer's ending? or is this the end of their 10 year friendship.

*cover photo taken from my trip to Savannah Georgia, edited on Canva
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college comingofage friendship growingup highschool journey newadult summervacation travel youngadult youth

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Ch 1.1 - The Night Before
Mon, May 31, 2021

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Ch 1.1 - The Night Before
Mon, May 31, 2021

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