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There was a part of Sara that wanted to tell Leo the truth. That she had two step-sisters, two women she didn’t know who weren’t really her step-sisters but thought of themselves that way. Two women her mother claimed and helped raise for nearly a decade before she died.
Sara didn’t like to think about them. She never talked about them. Once she and her dad learned about her mother’s accident, and the family she had a few states away, they stopped talking about her mom. It was like she never existed, and to Sara, she didn’t.
Neither did the daughters her mother chose over her.
“I can’t imagine not having my crazy family to grow up with,” Leo said, oblivious to Sara’s discomfort. “I’m not just the youngest of four, but I’m the second youngest of nine if you count my cousins. We all gr
