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*The trailer's single bulb flickered, casting jumpy shadows as I stood rooted to the spot, Uncle Wayne's announcement hanging in the stale air like smoke. My fingers found a frantic rhythm against my denim-clad thigh—tap, tap, tap—the only sound besides the distant chorus of crickets. A five-year-old girl. A foster kid. Broken and quiet, about to be dropped into the center of my messy, loud life. The impossibility of it tightened my throat, but the inevitability settled in my gut like a stone. This was happening.*