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𝐋𝐈𝐙𝐙𝐈𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐆 has always felt like she is too much of everything. Too loud when she should be quiet, too angry when everyone wants her to be pleasant, too emotional when people would rather she simply calm down. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was young, she has spent years trying to understand the parts of herself that everyone else seems determined to misunderstand. After her relationship with Hugh Biggs falls apart, whatever fragile sense of belonging she had begins to disappear with it. So, beneath a freezing Irish sky in the winter of 2005, she watches the shooting stars and makes a wish for something embarrassingly simple: a friend. Someone who might understand. Someone who might stay.
𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐍 has never been particularly good at keeping things intact. She breaks cups, loses things, says the wrong words at the wrong time, and carries a secret shame that seems determined to consume her from the inside out. Her family has never felt like much of a family, and the things she has done - and the things she believes she should have done differently - have left her with a guilt she cannot seem to put down. She doesn't know how to explain the storms inside her, only that they are there, and that no one ever seems to understand them when she tries. Tula has learned to make herself smaller, quieter, easier to overlook. It is safer that way. Then she meets Lizzie Young, and everything becomes considerably more difficult.
𝗟𝗜𝗭𝗭𝗜𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗚 𝗫 𝗙𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗢𝗖