Burning Bridges
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Last published Sun, Jun 12, 2016
Mandy Maestro is a sulky 25 year old, who eats cheerios for lunch and wishes to scare the pants off (maybe literally) people one day. Mandy has a tendency to mess things up quite often, lose her temper and get into hilarious (yet terribly relatable) situations. May or may not be taken from real experiences of the author.
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