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A Reason to Breathe

LorhainneEckhart

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Reads 452
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Parts 4
Time 34m

LorhainneEckhart

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"Wonderful story about Trevor! Lorhainne has written another fantastic part of this family." Karen


Everyone knows the first time you meet that special someone: Your eyes connect from across the room, and you smile and work up the courage to say hello. It's a simple feat for most people, but not for Trevor Friessen, who struggles to fit into this world and thinks he always will-that is, until he meets a girl who is as different from him as she is the same.

"Our families and everyone around us, what they don't understand is that we too feel love."

"A mesmerizing story of the emotional turbulence of a close family dealing well with a member on the Autism Spectrum." (Susan Top 1000 Reviewer)All Rights Reserved

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