Damaged
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Arden, Georgia; a city that barely sleeps. People are always partying whatever the occasion, tourists coming in numbers bigger than the former years. A city lots of people want to move to and never leave.
The historic buildings, fairytale like forests, myths, mysterious tunnels. All a few of the attractions tourists focus on.
What most people don't know is the mystery that hides behind Arden's beauty. What lives behind the tourists attractions or...what's hiding from them.
Among these tourists there's a young woman who few people refer to as a 'wise oak'. Some say people barely saw her. Nobody knew her name so people go for the cliché 'Jane Doe'.
But her case has also been called a myth.
Like many others a young man moved to Arden. The aura of the city being the beacon that drove him there. Being quite the adventurer he is, he realized that the myth of Jane Doe is more than just a story.
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