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Staying Away
**Title idea: *Stay Anyway*** **Logline:** A woman who's spent her whole life expecting people to leave falls for a man who refuses to be one more person who does. **Premise:** Mia was four when her father walked out and never looked…
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Previously
…I took a deep breath, the air filling my lungs with a sense of gentle resolve. I typed, not with the practiced caution of someone building a wall, but with the tentative hope of someone reaching out. “It was,” I typed back, then paused, a small smile playing on my lips. “It was good. Thank you for thinking of me.” I sent it, and as the confirmation pinged back, a small, unfamiliar warmth spread through me. It was a fragile thing, this hope, but for the first time, it felt real. It felt like a scar, perhaps, but a scar that was slowly, surely, beginning to heal.