Why Me?
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Last published Wed, Oct 19, 2016
14 year old Brighton Carter works hard for everything, she has to. She live on her own, well sort of she lives in the streets. The streets that most use to get from point A to point B, that's her home. At school nobody knows her secret to them she is just another kid not bullied not popular just there, she wants it that way. But life is hard on the streets, especially with nobody there she has the necklace from her parents and that is all the strength she has. Will Brighton be able to keep her secret or will her secret come out and her life ruined
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