Keeping Face
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Last published Thu, Aug 6, 2015
All of us have to keep face. We have to appear normal and be just like everyone else. Jake Allister is exactly that, he is a 20 year old college student who at first glance is absolutely normal. He is young, ambitious, and competitive. By day he attends summer class and tries to get by, in his mind however are things better left unsaid. Will Jake manage to separate what should be just in his imagination and reality ?
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