Yvonne, "What's the big deal? If she dies, I can have another child with you. Just ignore her!" My mother's words slammed me to the ground right outside the house that winter, the day I returned from school on foot. I was in junior school. The snowstorm was unexpectedly strong, but neither Mom nor Dad came to pick me up. When I finally arrived home, shivering and blue-lipped, I overheard her bitter words to Dad. He was afraid of CPS, worried I might say something, but Mom… Mom had always been unhinged. The next day, I found her with her boyfriend while Dad went gambling with his friends. When she noticed me standing there, watching, she didn’t fluster or apologize. Instead, she shoved me into the small laundry room outside, leaving me in the cold until he left. Even then, I knew: in this huge world of billions, I had no one. No one to talk to, no one to hold my hand, no one who would tell me I was loved for who I was. I had almost given up on people. Yet I told myself that when I
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