The juvenile correctional system could let us out into the world, but it could not control who would be out there, willing to claim us. Or that eye could belong to the woman who carried us for nine months, who labored for fourteen hours, who was sliced open with a C-section to give us life, and now wished she never did. The eye in the peephole would show itself, and that eye could belong to a stranger, as our family had moved halfway across the country and never informed us. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at 0.99.
We'd resort to ringing the bell, saying we've come home, can't we come in? Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma - Alibris Buy Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma online at Alibris. It could be that nothing was waiting for us. Nova Ren Suma is the author of A Room Away from the Wolves, a ghost story set in a refuge for troubled girls deep in the heart of New York City, and the 1 New York Times bestselling The Walls Around Us, a finalist for an Edgar Award. Maybe they'd told our siblings we'd been run over by trains, to make our absence fonder. Maybe our parents had thrown away our mattresses.
Everyone always thought that, not of what we had to go back to, at home. Of course, he assumed that would be getting out.
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