My Time to Wake Up The ticking of the clock. The pounding of my heart. I sat in the tiny holding room anxiously waiting, waiting for something, anything. My father paced nervously. My mother offered me her characteristic half-smile, but I knew her heart wasn’t in it. The phone rang from the corner of the room. I jolted at the jarring sound as my father jumped to answer it. Few words were exchanged with some indecipherable voice. I knew...

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