*A New Collection The U-Haul was smaller than I expected. Most of my stuff from the dorm barely filled half of it. I stood on the driveway of the house I grew up in, sweating under the late afternoon sun, watching my stepdad Daniel carry the last box inside. “Cindy, you sure you don’t want me to take the heavier ones?” he asked, wiping his forehead with the back of his arm. “I’m fine,” I muttered, even though my arms were burning. Truth was, I didn’t want to feel even more like a burden than I already did. Six months ago, my parents’ divorce had turned everything upside down. Dad moved to another state with his new girlfriend, and Mom quickly remarried Daniel. Now, with my financial aid delayed and my part-time job barely covering food, I had no choice but to move back in. Mom was barely ever home anyway, always traveling for her job, so it was mostly going to be me and Daniel in this big, quiet house. Daniel was… different from my dad--He is calm, he is steady. The kind of
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