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April Raintree spends years of her childhood in an abusive and neglectful foster home but works her hardest to focus on making it through to get to a better life. After being removed from a foster home that April loved and was cared for in, she is moved to the DeRosiers where she is neglected, abused, and used by the family. The only thing that kept April going was her hope for the future and her plans once she turned 18. This quote represents April’s thought process while enduring the DeRosiers and illustrating what she was looking forward to: “It means that kids like me had to take what kids like the DeRosiers gave, and none of that was good. Well, I wasn’t going to live like a half-breed. When I got free of this place, when I got free from

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