Pick Me Up
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The rich crack-head Alexander Lohan meets the self-providing street orphan Phoebe Martinez in the most unlikely of places: A hospital ward.
When his parents offer Phoebe to stay with them, where she will have what she always longed for: security; The washed-up football star decides it's time to clean up his act, that is if he wants this intriguing girl down the hall to like him.
Will he win over the most anti-substance-abuse, troubled, yet most intelligent girl he's ever met?
Or will his addiction just be too hard to kick?
Drugs are extremely addictive and persuasive, right? But what other often-toxic thing is even more addictive and persuasive?
L.O.V.E.
Pick Me Up by Arielle Carson.
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