Brief Foreward

Hospitalized, traumatized, and vulnerable, Jeremy Heere has never had an easy life.
Raised by two ill-equipped parents, Jeremy sports varied forms of trauma from neglect, isolation, and the seemingly limitless cruelty of life around him. He's spent his childhood socially ostracized from his peers, unable to navigate basic human interaction without smacking into a reminder of his own incompetence. Given the chance to change it all, the answer seemed obvious.
But that story is already over, isn't it?
Now he lays miserable in a small hospital at the edge of town. Haunted by regrets and budding feelings he doesn't feel entitled to, his life is surely worse now than it was before...
... unless he gets a second chance, that is.