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A long time ago in a city far, far away, a young boy was walking on a desolate highway, kicking on a rusty tin. The night was dark and freezing around him. It had stopped snowing now, but the wind was still blowing in the few leaves that were left on the trees. He was cold. He wrapped his jacket even tighter to his body, and sat down on a tree stump that wasn’t too covered with snow. He sat there all alone for a long, long time, with a little tear in the corner of his eye. He started to look back on his life, all the mistakes he had done –and not at least his family.

The last words… “Now, sonny… you have to be a good boy and remember to brush your teeth…” A policeman was standing on the front porch, with his hat in his hands and whispered something to grandma. Grandma looked sadly at me with tears in her eyes. It was slippery, the breaks failed… More, I didn’t have to know. I ran up to my room, and stayed there for several days, refused to come out. I just cried and cried. A couple of weeks later grandma got ill. She suffered from lung cancer in a month, before she walked hand in hand with Jesus to Gods kingdom, Heaven…

After my grandmothers’ funeral, I was sent to the only living relative I had… And maybe the person I disliked the most in the whole world, my long gone aunt Edwina… No one had seen her for years, not since the fight between her and my mother, anyway. But the orphanage (that I was going to live in if they didn’t track Edwina down), managed to find her somehow, in Pennsylvania, a long way from where I lived now, California. At first I was very angry because I had to live there, but then suddenly I realised that I didn’t know my aunt at all, I had just heard so many bad things about her… So, I decided to give her a chance.

It was hard saying goodbye to the house, all my childhood memories and my home town, where I grew up so all too soon… Now I was moving in to something new and different.

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