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SAVANNAH
PRESENT
Two weeks into filming Academy, and everything was rolling smoothly. I was used to the long days. At first, I’d missed them, and now, it just felt like work again. Amazing work that I desperately wanted to be doing, but work nonetheless.
When I wasn’t needed on set, I’d lounge in my trailer and pull out my mother’s book. It was taking me forever to get through. Not because it wasn’t interesting, but because I had to come up for air a lot. My mother sounded like … me.
In the first quarter of the book, it was page after page about how she’d met my dad and she was so in love. Even some sexy passages that I would have rather gouged my eyes out than read, but here we were. There was a brief mention of my mother’s husband, Edward. It was more of an after thought than any
