Healing with time
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Last published Mon, Apr 18, 2022
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Ophelia grows up struggling with her parents and her dad's problems then in the evening it all goes way too far... She then journeys on her own to heal from that experience. one day after her work shift she sees a little girl getting forced into the van.
Does she intervene?
Where will that path lead her?
Who is the little girl?
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