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I Took In My Closest Friend’s Child as My Own and Twelve Years Later, One Hidden Truth Tested Everything We Built

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That I needed time.
But I had lived a life where no one chose me.

I was not going to let him grow up feeling the same way.
The early years were hard.
Some nights, he woke up calling for his mother.

I slept on the floor beside his bed.
We cried together more than once.