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Contents
Chapter Four: Too Late to Help
Chapter Seven: No Chance to Say Goodbye
Chapter Nine: ‘I Hate You All!’
Chapter Ten: ‘A Family of My Own’
Chapter Thirteen: ‘Do Our Best’
Chapter Fifteen: ‘I Don’t Want Her Help!’
Chapter Sixteen: Testing the Boundaries
Chapter Eighteen: ‘I’d Rather Have You’
Chapter Nineteen: Happy Holiday
Chapter Twenty: ‘Will You Love Me?’
Chapter Twenty-One: ‘No One Wants Me’
Chapter Twenty-Two: A New Year, a New Social Worker
Chapter Twenty-Three: ‘She’s OK for a Girl’
Chapter Twenty-Four: Special Day
Chapter Twenty-Five: Thunderstorm
Chapter Twenty-Six: ‘I’ll Try My Best’
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Special Love