Faded Perfection (Beautifully Flawed, #2) - SAMPLE
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Last published Tue, Feb 16, 2016
Seconds.
That's all it takes to have everything ripped away from you.
No one knows this better than Adam Beckerson and River Alhers.
Each is fighting a losing battle with the death of Bobby and the fall out it has caused.
Adam finds himself fading into the bottom of a bottle, while River finds that the only thing she can do is run away from everything, including Adam.
Sometimes when we have everything ripped away from us...the thing we lose is ourselves, and sometimes we can never get it back.
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