The Reality of Life
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Last published Fri, Mar 25, 2016
Young teen Iris Hatcher celebrates her seventeenth birthday filled with flashbacks and unwelcome memories. Iris realizes that she's slipping... Again. Her depression hits her hard and she doesn't know if she can make it out alive like last time. On the very edge life itself, Iris meets someone just like her and maybe, just maybe, he can pull her out of her downward spiral.
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