My whole life, I thought I was the kind of girl people helped, not the kind they kept. Then a stranger in a leather vest walked into that gray state building and said the one word no one had ever risked on me: adopt. I tried to push him away with my worst truths—my legs, my medical history, my broken trust. He stayed. Eight months later, when the judge’s gavel fell, a parking lot full of bikers roared their engines for me, the girl everyone once assumed would age out alone. That was the day I stopped believing I was temporary, the day I learned that real family doesn’t flin… Continues…
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