These Days
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Last published Thu, Mar 17, 2016
It all started that summer. That wonderful, glorious, hair blowing summer, when everything changed. Mom and Dad split, my best friend Grace moved away, and the only crush that I've had my whole entire life decided to chase another girl.
Isn't it crazy how you'd think you'll have the greatest summer, but it ends like you dreamed it wouldn't?
Exactly.
Not to mention, you'd be starting school as a freshman. Alone.
How could you make it?
Welcome to the mind of Juliet Laightan Carpenter.
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