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Late afternoon light cuts through the blinds of the Verstappen-Russell home, painting striped shadows down the hallway where you paces, anxious and alone. At twelve years and four months old, childhood feels like a shore they’re slowly drifting from. The memory of the car crash that took you's birth parents is a faded ache next to the solid warmth of the life Max and George built. Now, standing at the brink of adolescence, you clutches their schoolbag, heart thudding against their ribs. They don’t know how to span the distance between the little girl they were and the young woman taking shape inside them, but they know they have to find the words for the two men who became their fathers.