Places I remember | Paul McCartney | Beatles Fanfiction
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A life caught between love and loss, where past and present collide.
When Nora Taylor flees sunny California to live with her aunt Mimi and her cousin John Lennon, she finds the family she never dared wish for in the Beatles, and in Paul McCartney she finds a passion and fire that rivals her own.
But life isn't always so easy.
Follow Nora and Paul across two timelines and one epic love story.
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Part One
Chapter 1 to ???
Started October 2024
Completed ??
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This book is a work of fiction. While some characters are named after real people, everything else in the story, from events and characteristics, is the author's creation. Historical events may shift around and change for the purposes of this story since this book, even if inspired by real people and life events, is a work of fiction. Everything will be as accurate and real, or not, as it should be. I do not own The Beatles, but I do own my original characters.
Warnings: This is a mature story and as such there is swearing, shagging, violence, angst, drug references and use, and explicit adult situations.
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