Finding Yourself
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Last published Sun, Jun 21, 2015
Trapped...in a body that's not my own.
Forgotten...by everyone I know for decades.
Forced...to live alone.
Angered...by the culprit who did this.
Now discovered...by a girl.
Raelynn had been turned into a mythical beast by a man she has once loved and now hated. She is forced to live alone in the woods away from human civilization. A few decades pass uneventfully before someone finds her: a teenage girl wanting a change in life.
Eleanor hates her life as a poor peasant with little money and hard work. She dreams of being royalty, and doing whatever she wants. She runs into an unknown part of the woods she had been warned to never enter. The she finds the beast the changes her life. A unicorn.
Follow both girl's stories as they find each other and learn about life's treasures, such as true love and sacrifices. Can both find themselves and see who they really are inside?
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