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Jun 2022
37m 5s

Bad romance (rerun)

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About this episode

This episode originally aired May 2021.


Mira Celper had always wanted to be best friends with her mom, but their relationship grew strained once her mom started dating the mysterious David, a successful engineer. As her mom fell deeper in love, Mira couldn’t shake the feeling that something about David was off. So she set out to find the truth.


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