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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
…He was too good to be true. He was persistent. He was kind. He saw through me. And that, more than anything, terrified me. Because people who saw through me always found a reason to leave. They always found a reason to stay away. And I had a horrible, sinking feeling that Nathaniel, despite his assurances, would be no different. The fear of that inevitable departure, however, had already begun to whisper its insidious doubts, and I found myself already bracing for the impact. The shared silence had been beautiful, but the silence that followed, the one I was now drowning in, was a stark reminder of the chasm that still existed between us, and within me.