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I admit I've never been a very social child, and it's not because my parents treated me awful, though they could've done better, it's because I chose not to be.

Making friends had its value for me from kindergarten to third grade but after that I saw no real reason to keep trying. I knew I wasn't like the other kids and it bothered me, though I didn't say anything. Years came and went and I sort of wilted on the inside, containing a secret that slowly ate away at my soul.

Why I really ran away from home I don't think I'll ever know but I did it, and don't regret it all the same. I left in my favorite pink play dress, the one mother never let me go out in. I ran until dusk when I hid in the garden of certain house some miles from my own in Norway. That's how I met my new guardian, a wise old lady I'd soon call grandmother as though I had done it all my life.

Turns out she really was a grandmother. Her grandson, Luke, was about four years or so younger then me, I hadn't met him yet, during that time I was hiding out at grandma's summer house in England. But I would meet him, soon enough. I believed fate wanted it to be so. 

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