A Cynic Saved
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Complete Thu, Jul 28, 2022<5 mins
How much are you willing to do for inner peace?
And, to which lengths shall you go to secure your inner peace?
Unconventional, abrasive, spontaneous and downright unreadable, that's who Katherine is, and you'll never know what she has in mind.
Being a graduate, and finally waking to the dooming reality of the disappointment that has become the employment situation in her country, doubled up with choices, and certain cycles of abuse, and, everyone is haunted by the past, right?
Also you never know how much you are bound to certain things, and so very tight. Who gets out, who survives, and Katherine has already learnt to take life as a cat race, it's a thrill in a shrill happening of events.
She's the girl with a poker face, and dangling fate in the name of playing cards, a girl who gets a chance with the joker.
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