The Loss Left Behind
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Ongoing5h 8m
Last published Tue, Aug 10, 2021
When you lose someone you love, it isn't like the walls cave in. It's the entire building. Everything you know is suddenly so different and you struggle to make sense of your surroundings, trying to heal, clean up the mess, and move on. That's the part that Nick struggle the most with. He can't move on. Until a young woman named Haley walks into his life and slowly starts to pick up the pieces.
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