the butterfly
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Olena Cope just graduated. Law school should have been a fresh start-but summer of '89 left marks that don't fade with time.
She wanted to run. To forget that place, those memories, those days. She told herself law school would be her escape, her redemption, her proving ground. Maybe she'd become the best. Maybe she'd outrun the past.
But what was she really searching for?
Love? A better future? Or a way to end it all?
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