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Cordelia Green is a spirited and temperamental nineteen-year-old with a deep devotion for music, living in Philadelphia at the dawn of the year 1905. Her carefully ordered world collapses in the most humiliating and distressing manner when, by a cruel mistake, she sends a letter that was never meant to see the light of day. One in which she confesses her forbidden love.
By fortune or misfortune, the letter does not reach its intended recipient.
The true calamity begins when Cordelia receives a reply.
The sender should not exist.
What follows is a tale of unexpected romance and tangled emotions, of hearts drawn together and torn apart, bound and released by the quiet, inexorable hand of destiny.
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Participant of the || Open Novella Contest 2026.
Main prompt: 79. A letter arrives addressed to you, written by someone who shouldn't exist.
Secondary prompts: 24. Staying as friends feels safe, but that doesn't mean it's the path you're meant to take.
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