p.s. I (almost) Love You
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Last published Sat, Nov 26, 2022
A life with passionate love or one that brings easement?
That is the ensuing choice Geoffrey Jones must make.
Thirty year old software developer, Geoff Jones, has endured his fair share of heartbreak, making a promise to himself to revisit love only when his career is fully advanced. His practical ideals and desire for success has him locked and focus... that is until he meets an unexpected person who changes all his plans.
Enter Joe.
Disheveled and rugged, Joe has recently left an unhappy marriage. After ten years wasted in a loveless union and burn out as a legal assistant, Joe makes a hasty move back to his childhood Philadelphia. When he is offered a new job as an entry level cloud developer at PNC, Joe takes the opportunity to redirect his life. Although love is the last thing on Joe's mind after his divorce, chemistry arises between him and his new mentor, Geoff.
Launch yourself into an intense and heart wrenching story that features two broken souls who rediscover the meaning of love.
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