Anxious Player
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Last published Fri, Sep 30, 2016
Katherine Bridgestone, a player with extreme anxiety. She couldn't live off one second without having any anxious thoughts. They would always swirl around her mind. This was a huge problem when she enters a relationship with a boy. For the past 15 years, Katherine always had an on and off relationship with boys. They always seem that Katherine was so obsessive with others. But in reality, Katherine never told them that she had anxiety. She could never escape this hell of a world..
Until she met him.
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