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“Is it selfish to want to start over at forty? I kept waiting for my broken heart to stop hurting quite so much. And yet, here I am, all these years later, and I still…” Anne Heatherington née Elliot is forced to confront some home truths when a family climbing trip brings her ex Frederika Wentworth back into her life. OR: A modern queer retelling of Persuasion with rock climbing that's somehow also all about the struggles of working parenthood, of invisible bisexuality, and of not fitting in with your family.

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