The Girl Who Wouldn't Break

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aid, her voice gaining a str

harp and cold as the

hidden community in rural Pennsylvania

turity, a rite of passage. For her, it was to be twenty-fiv

eeply before their time, they lost the

treat had been sudden, bru

she had stumbled upon a young man hikin

sandwich. A simp

om an Outsider, especially in a moment of life or death

owbrook was severed the mo

avors was her only way b

nded with the casual cruel

anted, to support his ambitions, to be a qu

n simple, almost trivial. "Smile

It reminded hi

going public, overlooking the city – "I wish we could be together always, Willow

he snow stinging her f

u again," she repeated, her gaze unwavering. "It i