“It was easy to admire Wren from the beginning, if only for the fact that she was the one person who could really shake Ellis. In all my memories, I realize that her mere presence in his life made him a more adventurous kid. He was braver about trying little things, and I think that probably trained him for the big things he’d end up taking on later, like when he had to take on raising all of us when he was only eighteen. And about that … he never truly did it alone. My siblings and I saw Wren courageously step into a role that included so many hats. Each of us called her to bail us out of
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