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    Fresh off a move and armed with a questionable apartment, a worn-out couch, a handful of bad habits, you're full of hope life will be better in NYC as you're about to start your first year at NYU.

    Then you stumble into West-View Café, and meet its two redheaded owners: Wanda, all soft smiles and gentle curiosity, and Natasha, all sharp lines and blunt honesty.

    What starts as a desperate quest for caffeine quickly turns into something else, a place to be when the demons in your head refuse to stay quiet. You came to New York to start over. You didn’t expect to be noticed. And you definitely didn’t expect them.

    But sometimes a city gives you exactly what you need - long before you realize why. What starts as a way to relieve stress quickly morphs into something you forbid yourself to feel. Caught between your unraveling thoughts and your desire to just keep the past in the past, you start to wonder if, maybe, good things can happen to people not heaven bound.

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