Almost, Always
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A story about love, timing, and the things we leave behind to survive
They fell in love in high school.
Held on through college.
Then life happened-
burnout, bills, broken timing.
Years later, Elena is a nurse trying to leave the country.
Leo is still chasing a dream no one believes in.
And a chance reunion in the middle of a rainy Cubao evening brings back everything they tried to outgrow.
They were each other's almost.
But love, sometimes, is not the ending.
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