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When Jo Found Herself

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Reads 57
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Parts 4
Time 27m

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At 28 years old, Jo is stuck in a dead-end job with an imagination and dreams that weren't made for pleasing her family or corporate America. After meeting with her boss who gives her the weekend to decide the next steps, Jo contemplates the best route and decides to take the road she never thought she'd travel down. For the first time in her life, she's doing what she dreamed about as a child and getting out of the toxic environment she grew up in. Taking the plunge, she travels to Europe, ready to find the person she was always meant to be.All Rights Reserved

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It Began In Italy | ✔️ by moonlighttkisscs

One last trip with her family before she goes to University. Her intentions for this trip were to spend every minute making memories and savouring the last moments she'd get with her family before she moved away. She did this, just not with who she had planned. In the Italian sun it's easy to make rash decisions and to have a lapse in judgement. Especially when a man, you've only just met, comes into play. When he's showing you the island and teaching you Italian, how can you not fall madly in love? With three weeks to spend, will she let herself fall head over heels for a guy she will most likely never see again, or will she stick with her former plan and come to her senses?

The Search for Lily Myers ✓ by falling-into-you

Amelia Allen feels stuck. To an outsider, her life must look beautiful. She has a steady job, a relationship, and several years of her twenties left to figure out what more she wants out of life. But nothing is as shimmery as it appears from the surface, and her boyfriend's increasing hostility leaves her feeling trapped within the confines of her own life---too scared to stay where she is but even more scared to run. Everything changes when a stranger disappears. When Amelia finds out that a girl she went to school with has gone missing, she decides to show up at the search party, only expecting it to impact her life for a couple of hours. But there she meets Henry, who's sweet and charming and impossible to stay away from. And as she gets pulled deeper into his world and the mystery of his cousin's disappearance, the entangled truths about everything around her start to emerge. Hearts are broken, dark secrets are exposed, and people's true colors are revealed. But amidst all of the chaos, Amelia slowly starts to find something else: herself. »»-----　♡　-----«« ✧ Started: June 7th, 2020 ✧ Completed: October 11th, 2020 ✧ Rewrite Started: August 2022 ✧ Rewrite Completed: October 2022 »»-----　♡　-----«« ♡ previously featured in @Romance's Featured Romance Stories list ♡

The Dream Before the Dark ✓ by falling-into-you

Chicago, IL. January 1992. When Jenny Adler shows up to her first day at a new job, she hopes it can be as simple as it is on paper - a few short months of doing paperwork and answering phone calls before she moves on to the next thing. It was never supposed to be anything more than a mere stepping stone, never meant to be significant. But no matter how fast she runs, the past clings to her like a shadow and having to constantly see the woman she wants to forget forces her to confront the uncomfortable truths she's been trying so hard to ignore. Meanwhile, a new friendly face slowly coaxes her into opening up and for the very first time, she starts to believe that humans aren't as inherently broken as she thought them to be. What she intended to be just a tiny blot of ink on the pages of her life ushers in the beginning of a brand new chapter and makes her challenge her beliefs about what it means to be a woman in a man's world, if love truly can be found in the most unexpected and darkest places, and what to do when you realize that you've turned into the very thing you swore you'd never become. Their future was a tragedy waiting to be written, a tale of endings that came too soon after beginnings. But there was a life before the dark, a life so full and hopeful it later felt like but a dream. »»----------«« ♡ featured in @NA's general + historical fic reading list ♡ »»----------«« ♡ Started: May 17th, 2021 ♡ Completed: October 31st, 2021

Losing All Religion by katilynnjohnston

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Dragonflies by ShimnaEM

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A lover's guide to love by ivi_writes

When 23 year old Ava Monroe decides to abandon her life in America and move to Italy for as long as her heart desires, all she wants is to start and finish the book she has been struggling to write for so long while looking down from a perfect balcony to the life of Italy unravelling beneath her. But what can someone that doesn't believe in love fill a book with? What could she possibly write that moves her in a way that nothing else can ever do? Perhaps, in more ways than one, a handsome stranger can alter her world-view throughout the roller coaster of her visit which changes her beliefs forever. --- Rankings; #3 in Adventurous : November 29

Uncomfortable by GWDPHM

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My Wildflower [H.S] by harryswildflower

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Chronicles of becoming by Rose_Idol

In her thirties, she walked away from a life that felt like it was closing in-leaving behind the familiar streets of Europe, a routine love, and the safety of everything she knew. Drawn by the promise of something greater, something electric, she chose New York. A city of endless lights, endless possibilities, and endless illusions. But instead of finding herself, she found emptiness. Nights blurred into fleeting encounters, brief touches that never lingered, and hollow moments disguised as connection. Beneath the vibrant pulse of the city, she felt nothing. No love, no fire, no sense of belonging-just a growing void. These are her chronicles-a raw and intimate journey of a woman lost between who she was and who she thought she could become. It's a story of longing, of chasing meaning in a world that offers only illusions, and of coming to terms with a brutal truth: sometimes, before you can find yourself, you have to confront the emptiness inside.

It Doesn't Even Matter by butterbreadfly

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It Began In Italy | ✔️

One last trip with her family before she goes to University. Her intentions for this trip were to spend every minute making memories and savouring the last moments she'd get with her family before she moved away. She did this, just not with who she had planned. In the Italian sun it's easy to make rash decisions and to have a lapse in judgement. Especially when a man, you've only just met, comes into play. When he's showing you the island and teaching you Italian, how can you not fall madly in love? With three weeks to spend, will she let herself fall head over heels for a guy she will most likely never see again, or will she stick with her former plan and come to her senses?