Raison D'etre
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Last published Sun, Feb 3, 2013
When an eighteen year-old woman-to-be gets declined from the only university she applied for her life gets turned up side down. Strangely, she doesn't feel sad or down about, but her father's fury is endless. So with what little money she has, she get's her self on a train to Paris, the city of lights, hoping that it'll help her own light to shine just as bright.
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