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"ARE WE TOO YOUNG FOR THIS?"
It's 1995, Cleo Hardy's friend Emma ross recently died within a car crash and is now trying to cope with her death while trying to figure herself out now as a highschool senior
TW: topics of abuse, underaged drinking, drug addiction, swearing, murder, smoking, and death, topics of SA
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