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Submitted to Contest #97
Chapter 1 Cody Thompson has spent his entire childhood following the footsteps of his famous parents. He tried being a good son, he tried being a good elder brother to his two-little sibling, tried to be a better husband, a better father, a better businessman. But he never did anything for himself. He tried and always tried to keep everyone happy but never realised that he was the one who was unhappy behind. One day Cody was at his job and he was flipping over the pages of some local magazine where he spotted an advertisement that caught h...
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