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To Wanda, with all my love.
Table of Contents
Extract from the diary of Connie Carter:
“It’s all gone wrong. I don’t know what to do. There was me with my stupid, perfect happy ending and it’s all crumbled to dust. Maybe I should have realised that I just wasn’t ‘good enough’.
But I never thought your whole life could just sort of fall apart like that. And fall apart so easily,