Love, happiness, trust, loyalty...all things that come with being engaged and the beginning of marriage. Everyone's happy, you can see your future together, and the bliss you feel when you think about being bonded to each other for eternity. Sounds almost like a dream.
Love, happiness, trust, loyalty...all things tested by marriage. All things that can stress marriages apart. Newlyweds are the ones that think they're all invincible, untouched by the insanity. Then they wake up from that dreamlike state.
Their relationships are also the most fragile and unstable, the most likely to break at the smallest change.
I'm Kenny Kendrick, and this is the story of my marriage.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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