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    It's Complicated: a Collection of Words on Love
    It's Complicated: a Collection of Words on Love
    It's Complicated: a Collection of Words on Love
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    It's Complicated: a Collection of Words on Love

    By Ben Parks

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    Sometimes love is a spontaneous night in the city, sometimes it is the one that got away and comes back around. Sometimes it is easy, like two pieces of a puzzle, and sometimes it is an uphill battle worth the fight. Love lost or found, there is one thing for sure. Love is always complicated.


    This collection of short stories, f

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBen Parks
    Release dateDec 5, 2023
    ISBN9781088283813
    It's Complicated: a Collection of Words on Love
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    Ben Parks

    Ben Parks is an author, poet, and full time zookeeper born and raised in Central New York. A lover of love stories, Ben has published two collections of romantic, and not so romantic, short stories and poetry. You can find out more on her Facebook page of the same name, or her substack "Words by Ben Parks".

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