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Our Intentions - Drama - cover

Our Intentions - Drama

Felipe Corvo

Verlag: Babelcube

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Beschreibung

Who in their youth has not given up a great love? If you could somehow go back in time, what would you do to preserve this love? In the short story “Wounded Birds”; Linda's story is told - a girl full of life, like so many others in the world, but because of some family problems she went through, she ended up walking a path that doomed her young heart once and for all. Here is the maxim of the tale: “If loving decisions are not based on the cries of our innermost being, sometimes, everything that is built from then on, even with great difficulty, will disband in heaps of ashes, in clusters of nostalgic mists, in soot. nostalgic labyrinths with no return”.
Verfügbar seit: 18.11.2022.
Drucklänge: 31 Seiten.

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