Coffee & Blueprints
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Last published Fri, Aug 8, 2025
She's twenty-something, outspoken, and just trying to keep her head above water.
Kicked out of her family home for daring to dream too big, she's left balancing university, multiple jobs, and a live-in nanny position - all while chasing her goal of becoming an architect with an artist's heart. Her world is crowded, chaotic, and quietly falling apart, but in the backroom of a local café, she's carved out a secret studio where her dreams still live - in paint, sketches, and late-night blueprints.
The last thing she needs is a distraction - especially not in the form of the annoyingly persistent guy she keeps running into at the library. But as their paths continue to cross, and life grows heavier around her, she finds herself forced to let someone in for the first time in a long time.
A coming-of-age story about ambition, art, and finding a place to call your own, this is the quiet, determined journey of a girl building a life no one thought she could.
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