Melancholy
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Tiffany Mendez Shaw is an addict struggling to become sober and a fighting melancholy as well. She needs saving but sometimes Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. It is Depression minus its charm. But she believes she has to discard drug alone and swim in the ocean of Melancholia as it seems to have always transfigure her. She meets Royce, her boyfriend and drug dealer who believes the drug selling side job he does, is an emblem he shouldn't discard.
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