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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 drifted off to sleep that night, the image of Nathaniel’s steady hands cleaning up the spilled coffee was the last thing I saw. It was a small act of kindness, a fleeting moment of shared vulnerability. But for Mia, the woman who had spent her life bracing for impact, it was the first gentle breath of a coming storm, a storm that promised to wash away the carefully constructed walls and reveal the fragile, hopeful heart beneath. And for the first time in a long time, the thought of that storm didn’t fill me with dread, but with a hesitant, almost imperceptible, sense of anticipation.