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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
…As I ate, I watched Nathaniel. He wasn’t looking at me with pity or expectation. He was just eating his soup, his presence a quiet, solid anchor in the storm of my own making. He had faced my ugliness, my fear, my accusation, and he hadn't flinched. He hadn't run. He had brought me soup. And in that simple, ordinary act, something shifted within me. A tiny crack, not in the foundation of my fear, but in the walls I’d built around it. It was the beginning, I suspected, of something I hadn’t dared to hope for. The possibility that maybe, just maybe, Nathaniel was right. Maybe, some people didn't leave. Maybe, some people stayed, anyway. And maybe, just maybe, I could learn to believe it.