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Dear Runaway
2023Action
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This story is about the struggles to find happiness and feel fulfillment as a runaway teenager, you progress as a 18 year old who ran away due to your adoptive parents constant fighting and because of the constant mistreatment your family subjected you to. After you run away you're faced with the constant guilt of running away but the freedom keeps you from returning as you travel through this mod…
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