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But its hard to feel special when youve spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. Maddie has resigned herself to life in the east tennessee childrens home, figuring that there wasnt much chance anyone was going to adopt an 11yearold girl as plainjane as me. One is because it takes places in the east tennessee mountains, which is close to where i grew up in northern georgia. All she said was lies to everyone in the foster home.
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