Northern Lights

My life was nearly perfect.

21. Grad student. Loving and supportive family. Best friends a girl could ask for. Protégé to the most sought after professor in my field. Perfect, I tell ya.

Then in just one week, everything changed.

Now…

30. Single parent. Living in a new city hours away from home. Best friend in tow. Rejoining academia after ghosting my dreams nearly a decade prior.

Nothing to see here, folks. Don’t mind me.

But then he sees me. And he wants me. There’s no way I’m traveling that road, again. But, did I really even travel it the first time?

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