A Lot Like You (on hold)
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"..and that's when I decided that I just needed to get away from all that."
He took a sip of what looked like his third bottle of beer and looked straight ahead. He stroked the arm of the leather coach and sighed before facing me, "Hmmm..well Gilbert I'm a lot like you"
Elizabeth Wilder lost her mother when she was only four and ever since then her stepdad John had taken her in. Or it was she who took him in.
Now, at 18, Elizabeth just wanted to somehow get passed high school and get on with her very periodic life. She felt that 'wishing on shooting stars' and 'praying' were just a waste of time, considering how her life took a turn for the worst since before she was five. But what she didn't know was that like her there was another who also dreamt for a different life, another who wished he could escape it all, another who wanted to make most of his existence.
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