A DAY IN JULY
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The life of a "new adult" that feels like she hasn't achieved anything, compared to her family and friends. In order to get out something from her life she leaves her very demanding and not so rewarding job to try her luck around the world, only to come back feeling accomplished but a little defeated.
She will challenge herself into not feeling like a loser, trusting again people around her and letting somebody new into her life, lowering her defenses and learning that loving herself and accepting the love of somebody else is not actually a sign of weakness.
Understanding that asking for help and being scared of new possibilities is not a bad thing and that she should praise herself more.
Spending a summer full of adventures and a fall full of challenges and goodbyes she grows more into the adult woman she deserves to be, and by winter actually grabbing what's hers without compromising for no one.
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