Salt and Cigarettes
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Last published Sun, Sep 22, 2024
Layla Branson's family has been moving countries every two years since she was born and to put it nicely, she was fucking sick of it.
On Layla's seventeenth birthday, she decides to go to boarding school thinking it'll bring stability, peace and maybe some clarity to where she belongs. But when she gets there and realizes just how wrong she was she wonders if she made the right decision.
But maybe it's better this way.
And maybe she will get an answer to her burning question.
so is it worth it?
Even though she knows deep down that if she does this she won't be the same naevi girl she once was.
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