POSE - Paige Bueckers
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Last published Wed, Jul 19, 2023
"Oh, you have got to be shitting me." Adelaide thought as she turned the corner into Gampel stadium, seeing a certain blonde she never expected to see again, let alone here. At her job. Almost three years later. 'After all these fuckin years' she thought.
After taking a paid internship and so-called 'media girl' position on the other side of the country her Junior year of college, Adelaide Winslow never expected to reconnect with the hot blonde stranger she met on a school trip way back in high school, yet here she was, walking into her new job, suddenly aware of the fact interacting with said blonde would be inevitable. "Yay me," the freckled brunette mumbled under her breath as she shouldered her camera bag and attempted to fake confidence, strutting onto the basketball court and towards her new boss, Geno.
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What happens when a student journalist and yearbook editor turned media girl reconnects with a tall blonde she met in a fleeting moment all those years ago? And what happens when that girl turns out to be her new photo subject for the next year?
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𝐒𝐍𝐎𝐎𝐙𝐄; 𝘱. 𝘣𝘶𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴
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