The Key to Dawn
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MatureOngoing1h 19m
Last published Sun, Jun 4, 2017
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In Dawns world, she lives in a small town in Maine. Her mother is kind and her sister is the same, with a dead father, who she never knew but misses dearly.
But one day, comes a boy. He changes everything. Everything she knew gets thrown into a whirl wind of lies and stolen memories become real again.
Join Dawn as she battles her heart to find the key to unlocking all the secrets, all the lies and all the unknown.
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