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Vanessa’s defense.

Part 3
Emma looked too small in the hospital bed.

That is a strange thing to say about a fourteen-year-old who had recently grown two inches and started stealing my hoodies because hers were “too fitted.” But under the thin hospital blanket, with an oxygen tube under her nose and monitors blinking beside her, she looked like the little continue reading …