My eyes blurred as I struggled to make sense of what my mother had just said. I had just learned that we were going to move. How could my parents uproot me from everything I had ever known? My whole life was in Florida. We lived near a rural town, in the country surrounded by horses, cows, and miles of farmland. I didn’t want to move to a new city, in a new state, and start completely over. At...

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