The Person You Always Saw in Me

"I'm going to be the person you always saw in me."

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This is what you do when you are twelve, your pillar-of-support grandpa dies, and your mother still clings on to the hope of your gambler-father coming back to get you two:

This is what you do when a puppy that's on its way to the pound is thrust in your arms, when you don't have any money to feed or care for it; what you do when you lose your house and are forced to leave school and the town you've always known;...