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    Sebastian remembers, in technicolor detail, the moment he first saw Alex.

    Nine years old, blinking out behind his mothers back at the boy with scraped knees and empty eyes. He remembers the lake-water stillness, the quiet stretching out before him.

    This is a story about trauma and healing. About the collapse of the things we thought were true and the re-making of our realities in the image of something stronger.

    This is a story about falling in love.

    This is a story about re-building Rome.

    (Or: a jock and a goth fall in love)

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