The Girl That Learned to Fly
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  • Reads 16,152
  • Votes 2,677
  • Parts 46
  • Time 41m
Complete, First published May 19, 2016
Sometimes no one can save you...


Madeleine Kingston is dead. They tried to save her but it was to late. 

Grace Jacobs isn't dead, but she might as well be. Madeleine was her best friend, yet she couldn't see the signs.

James Kingston is broken. Madeleine was his twin sister and now half of himself is gone.


When Madeleine died she took a piece of both Grace and James with her. Both Grace and James are left devastated,but they find a box full of letters from Madeleine. Twenty for Grace,twenty for James, forty letters total. And all these letters lead up to the day Madeleine died.


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