Crossroads
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Last published Sun, Feb 14, 2016
"You're getting adopted"
Those very words shook Fatima's inner core and she wondered just what was happening to her normal and peaceful life.
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Fatima Mahmood was your ordinary Muslim girl living in a Canada. She had a small family that only consisted of her father, mother, and a brother on-the-way, she went to the local Muslim private school, and she was happy. That all changed when she lost her parents in a car accident.
Soon she found herself kicked out of the only home she's ever known and placed in an orphanage. She didn't expect anyone to adopt her when there were so many other younger and more religious compatible kids running around. So imagine her shock when she gets adopted by a Christian family.
Follow Fatima in her struggle to live with her new family, where she understands the meaning of friendship, love and family beyond blood relations.
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