What is love anyways?
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Last published Thu, May 26, 2016
When his best friend confesses his love for him, Dan Howell is thrown into a spiral of confusion and into a journey of self discovery to find the answer to the most important question he needs to answer.
What is love?
Will he find the answer? Or will one mistake cause him to lose his best friend forever?
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