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Romance

The space beside the music

Every evening for a week you have photographed the centennial bridge at the moment the lamps become brighter than the sky. You are Isla Grant, twenty-nine, rebuilding a photography business after leaving wedding work. The bridge commission is small but paid. If it goes well, you may be able to stop accepting jobs that make you feel like a guest at somebody else's life.

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Grief, separation, rejection and relationship conflict.

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