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Shiloh
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“Ooh! Here comes the birthday girl. Good morning and welcome back. I was so lonely here without you,” Mrs. Steel says as I enter the dining area and we share a hug while she asks me how it went with this biggest smile that takes my anxiety from one to a thousand in a second, knowing what I have to tell her.
I settle down as Lena dishes up for me, muttering, Thank you. For some reason, the first thing that comes out of my mouth as I look back at Mrs. Steel is that it went well. Instead of I made a stupid mistake that almost got us abducted. Just then, my mother enters with the biggest smile of her own.
I get up and we share a hug. Mom is the house manager, so she has privileges that some of the other workers don’t have, like being allowed to have
