Chapter 48

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."

-Theodor Seuss Geisel-

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I remembered the first time I met Dimitri. I was I was just a little child who was submerged in my own world. After my father’s death, I had to make some adjustments here and there. I could feel right away that I did not belong in this new area, it was not as if I had difficulties making friends with them. I did not speak English as fluently as I could when I grew up a bit but I was still a rather bright girl, so a few kids around the neighborhood who passed by my house would ask to play with me and I thought I could be friends with them.

“Lana, don’t go out by yourself.” I used to hear my mother screamed as she saw me walking pass the gate with the friends and she would grab my hand and took me away from the friends I just met. I think they became scared of my mother in particular so they rarely inv