I Kept Your Name Anyway
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Eliza Roberta Tough Bronze has spent eighteen years knowing exactly who her mother is, and learning to live without her.
To the world, Lucy Bronze is untouchable. A legend. Someone who gave everything to the game.
To Eliza, she's just the woman who only ever showed up at Christmas.
So when Eliza turns eighteen, she stops waiting.
A summer in Barcelona was never meant to change anything. But one mistake, one moment, and one name said out loud is all it takes for everything Lucy has kept hidden to unravel.
Now, with the truth exposed and the past refusing to stay buried, Eliza is forced to decide what she wants from the mother who was never really hers, and whether some relationships can be rebuilt... even after eighteen years of silence.
10.07.2007
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