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“Douglas is safe and Dad knew all along that I hid from Mom under the porch. He saved Douglas, but he never saved me. “And right there on the ground I decide I’m going to save anyone I can. It won’t matter if I’ve known them a day or a year or their whole life— I’ll never choose one person over the other, no matter who they are.”

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Book:The Name She Gave Me: A Powerful Young Adult Novel in Verse About Adoption and Searching for a Biological Sister
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