Love Grows In Shadows
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In a hospital in New York a girl name Ayla was born on December 3rd, 2006. She was born without a leg and had to use hand crutches for her whole life. She never really loved herself because of it.
people on the streets would make fun of her for her disability and her classmates weren't any better. And after a traumatic car incident with her parents, with so many hardships and pain, she doesn't want the gift of life anymore, but instead the curse of death.
But at the last moment she meets a boy with the same destiny who might change that forever.
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