12 Steps To The Left
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Amelia Howl was born and raised in a Dingy Duncan Tennessee. A town where everyone knows everyone.
With Highschool finally coming to an end Amelia has been accepted to the school of her dreams alongside her two best friends,
Heather Wyatt and Justin Leen. Amelia couldn't be more content. But when certain truths are exposed and friendships burn,
Amelia goes to her dream school in San Francisco alone.
No exciting dorm life or friends to share it with.
Moving into her grandmothers apartment home above their apothecary, Amelia finds a more melancholy path to follow for a short time that is, until the hustle of the night crowd becomes apparent and she falls into a life that she had been dutifully kept away from.
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