Mark hung out in a chat room for local teens from Manchester, England. In this chat room, he met and fell in love with Rachel West and made a best friend in her stepbrother, John . Things were going great until Rachel was tragically murdered. Meg tries to hold it together during this Shakespearean, cautionary tale of chat rooms in the early 2000s.

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