Jamal, are you going to attend the homecoming?
I do not know Josh, why are you asking? Because.. the girls on the cheerleading team are hot!
Boy focus on getting out of middle school first. Jamal tell me about high school. You will be able to play sports, get into extra-curricular activities, attend dances and focus on your academic courses to prepare yourself for college after the completion of your four-year journey. I want to attend one of them prestige high schools to get a fine woman... Jamal chuckled and said OK. Jamal had an off-and-on relationship with three young ladies. Annie from his church, Carolyn who attends the same school and at his current part-time job Rebecca. Jamal was the third person on his basketball team who was chosen to always play every game & he was an honor roll student, Jamal were second to the oldest of a three children's household. Carolyn whom he dated the most had her own style more than the rest. Carolyn had a good head on her shoulder and she loved hard most of all. Carolyn's family was the usual strict on her, when it came down to having a boyfriend. My mother met Carolyn a handful of times but never thought it was anything serious between us. By the time high school ended; Carolyn and I moved to another state at the college of our choice, and we both were college graduates. By the time we both settled in our careers, we had three children with one on the way. Several years after we got ready to settle down, we started attending therapy dealing with childhood trauma. Jamal decided he wanted to meet his father.
Will Jamal be able to have a good relationship with his father?
Adding injury to heartache Carolyn knows his father very well...
Will Carolyn & Jamal be able to forgive this Unknown Family Betrayal when they find out what it is or who is involved?
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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