title: Alone in the World: Stories of Complex Human Relationships
author:  Ashok Kumar MD 
description: Ashok Kumar, M.D., is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and a clinical cardiologist at Saint Peters University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He lives with his wife and is in private practice with his daughter who is also a cardiologist.
zlib_text: YOU AND I
  
  Alone
  
  You and I
  
  Book One
  
  Melissa Toppen
  
  Copyright © 2015 Melissa Toppen
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events
  
  are entirely coincidental.
  
  **You and I,**
  
   **Alone**
  
  You and I Book One
  
  Written by Melissa Toppen
  
  **TABLE OF CONTENTS**
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  CHAPTER TWO
  
  CHAPTER THREE
  
  CHAPTER FOUR
  
  CHAPTER FIVE
  
  CHAPTER SIX
  
  CHAPTER SEVEN
  
  CHAPTER EIGHT
  
  CHAPTER NINE
  
  CHAPTER TEN
  
  CHAPTER ELEVEN
  
  CHAPTER TWELVE
  
  CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  
  CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  
  CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  
  CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  
  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  
  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  
  CHAPTER NINETEEN
  
  CHAPTER TWENTY
  
  CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  
  CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  
  CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  
  CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  
  CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  
  CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  
  CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  
  CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  
    
    
  
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