Finding Comfort In Apathy
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Last published Fri, Jan 29, 2016
"It's a gray, gray world, Richards, with gray people and gray skies, and sheets of gray rain that fall from the sky."
"Well then, Jackson, it's a good thing I brought my fluorescent pink umbrella."
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Abigail Jackson is a high school senior who's only dream is to get out of her small town, where so many things have gone wrong.
Unknown to her, Dustin Richards is living her same hell. Fighting the same battle.
Losing the same war.
When the two figure more about themselves and each other, it becomes apparent that everyone deals with sadness in their own way. Some become overwhelmingly optimistic, some make jokes to hide their pain, and some hide their tears in the gray rain.
And some just find comfort in apathy.
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