fect 1600 on my SATs, a golden ticket to the futur
ter, gasped, her own 1599 score
iam, my adoptive brother, materialized, his prot
ider out to humiliate his beloved sister,
down animal shelter, a place designed to exploit my deepest, most trauma
ords on the phone twisted the knife deeper,
estroy my most cherished possession-a photo of my late
the dark with a freed, aggressive
ce, cruel and dismissive, echoed aga
coming. They w
found the strength to scream one d
lers' carefully constructed facade, exposed li
I will rise from the ashes, no longer an outsider begging