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    … Can reliance ease the madness
    When every voice says I'm worthless?
    I thought I would find the force from fighting
    But if I win alone, I'm losing
    … I'm turning horizons into battlegrounds
    I cannot walk ahead without your guidance
    I'm turning horizon into battlegrounds
    And every step I take, without a sound
    Can I hold on
    Can I hold on to you?
    - woodkid

    Simon thought he'd made it. Not like in his books or in the movies where the protagonist suddenly gets all they've ever wanted.

    But Violet had opened his eyes enough for him to want more than the darkness, self-loathing and the montone feeling of living his life in a blurr.

    She was his first love and he'd let himself believe in it. And when she got pregnant his entire life shifted.
    They retired from the military, the only life he'd ever known to live civilians lives for the sake of their daughter.

    But healing is not linear and maybe there's a limit to what wounds you can mend.

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    OR: Simons civilian life comes crashing down as he moves into an apartment separately from his girlfriend to try to save their relationship.
    But his charming Scottish neighbour isn't afraid of the dark.

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