Learning to love again
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Last published Mon, Jun 26, 2017
Gretchen Heights has been dealt a bad hand in life.
He mother died when she was born and her father was an alcoholic who abused her until he died of a heart attack when Gretchen was 10.
Since then Gretchen has been in and out of foster homes for six years. But the night of her 17th birthday everything changes.
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Dylan Reynolds a washed up pop star who's just lost his job, was told that if he ever wanted to work in the celebrity world again, he has to get his act together.
So he started to think what he could do to make a difference, to change himself. He's 19 years old, has been pampered all his life and has never had to worry about getting an education because he was famous and that paid well enough.
Now lost, Dylan wanders the streets of Manhattan in search of something; something that could save him from himself.
That's when something completely unexpected happens, he stumbles upon a girl stuck in a wire fence, her dress flipped over her face showing off her bear panties.
Like a sudden storm both Gretchen and Dylan's life change at that moment.
For better or for worse is for you to find out.
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