memories roll in like the waves, transporting me back to the morning he told me that he and his son would like me to move in with them. It was a week before my eighteenth birthday. I was about to age out of the system. I’d been a ward of the state since my father’s compound had been shut down. It was the happiest day of my life. Someone wanted me, flaws, and all. David knew there would be challenges, but he signed up nonetheless. I was still experiencing nightmares most nights and I was very shy, uncomfortably so. Then there was the fact I didn’t speak unless he was around. He didn’t need to
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