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This is beautiful.

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🙏🙏🙏

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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Oh my gosh, Linnhe! So beautiful. I LOVED LOVED LOVED THIS with all my heart.

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Only THE Meg Oolders... 🫢 THANK YOU 🙏

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When did I get a THE badge?? 😂 You're sweet.

Seriously, the energy between these two characters was just amazing. From start to finish. I was surprised by the end, but then again, I wasn't. I was just super happy. 💜

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I admit I lost myself in Josh and Benny. They occupied my head for weeks...(and they are kind enough to visit from time to time!)

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The best characters always come back to visit. 💜

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So many themes and turns and yet a simple lovely story. Really well done.

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Thank you so much 🙏 for both reading and sharing your kind words. I can’t quite believe the response I’ve had from this story... feeling very lucky! Thanks again.

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Oh my god, this is beautiful. You did such a wonderful job building up to its both surprising (in all the best ways) and inevitable end. If I didn’t say it on the previous story, I’ll say it here. Glad this project has brought me to your work. ♥️

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🙏 thank you 🙏

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Beautiful story! You really capture the held-breath feeling of that time, in the immediate aftermath. A sense that the world has changed, but no idea what that means for our individual lives. I loved the details you chose to create that world of directionless young adulthood - especially the music.

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Thank you so much for reading, and for taking the time to write such kind feedback - I stressed too much over ‘Wilson’ (9/11 is a difficult subject to navigate) I’m so very very happy it found its feet!

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Thank you for writing this beautiful story. With both Wilson annd Cold coffee I felt as if I was the lead character. I really love your writings!

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Thank you, I opened Substack this morning and your kind words became one of my favourite birthday gifts! That is the joy of writing in first person, I adore getting under the skin of the narrator. Both the lead characters in Wilson and Cold Coffee have been living my life with me for the past few weeks...

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This brought me back to completely different time and place. The chemistry and energy between these two was so palpable. You could really feel the love. Such a beautiful story, from such a dark time. Thank you.

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Thank you 🙏 so much

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Wow, if these two stories are anywhere near your 'normal' writings I am sold....

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Thank you for your very kind words! I’m quite new to writing fiction (started this summer), but I think I’ve found my ‘voice’ through this project. I just love creating characters, and living with them as I write the stories.

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