Everyone warned me not to adopt Luke.“He’s sixteen,” my sister said over the phone, her voice tight with the particular worry of someone who loves you and thinks you’re about to make a mistake. “Do you know how many placements a kid like that has been through?”I did know. Ten. I’d read the number in his file and it had sat in my chest like a stone.“Caroline, teenagers who bounce around that much—they come with things. Things you can’t fix.”“Everybody comes with things,” I said.She sighed. It was the sigh she’d been sighing at me for three years.
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