Before Sunrise (The Hours Before Trilogy)
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Loreniele Clementine Marquez, a city girl and med student, transfers to a provincial university in Aurora de San Felipe, a place that feels both too quiet and too far from everything she knows.
She meets Ellian Roi Alcatraz, a local who's studying under a scholarship while helping run his family's dorm. He's rough around the edges, speaks half in Bisaya, half in English, and completely different from the people Val's used to.
They start off as strangers who constantly misunderstand each other, different dialects, different worlds - but little by little, they find comfort in the chaos of their differences.
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