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Lexi Baill studied a Washington State map until the tiny red geographical
markings shimmied in front of her tired eyes. There was a vaguely magical
air about the place names; they hinted at a landscape she could hardly
imagine, of snow-draped mountains that came right down to the water’s edge,
of trees as tall and straight as church steeples, of an endless, smogless blue
sky. She pictured eagles perched on telephone poles and stars that seemed
close enough to grasp. Bears probably crept through the quiet subdivisions at
night, looking for places that not long ago had been theirs.
Her new home.
She wanted to think that her life would be different there. But how could
she believe that, really? At fourteen, she might not know much, but she knew
this: kids in the system were returnable, like old soda bottles and shoes that
pinched your toes.
Yesterday, she’d been wakened early by her caseworker and told to pack
her things. Again.
“I have good news,” Ms. Watters had said.
Even half-asleep, Lexi knew what that meant. “Another family. That’s
great. Thanks, Ms. Watters.”
“Not just a family. Your family.”
“Right. Of course. My new family. It’ll be great.”
Ms. Watters made that disappointed sound, a soft exhalation of breath that
wasn’t quite a sigh. “You’ve been strong, Lexi. For so long.”
Lexi tried to smile. “Don’t feel bad, Ms. W. I know how hard it is to place
older kids. And the Rexler family was cool. If my mom hadn’t come back, I
think that one would have worked out.”
“None of it was your fault, you know.”
“Yeah,” Lexi said. On good days she could make herself believe that the
people who returned her had their own problems. On bad days—and they
were coming more often lately—she wondered what was wrong with her,
why she was so easy to leave.
“You have relatives, Lexi. I found your great-aunt. Her name is Eva
Lange. She’s sixty-six years old and she lives in Port George, Washington.”
Lexi sat up. “What? My mom said I had no relatives.”
“Your mother was … mistaken. You do have family.”
Lexi had spent a lifetime waiting for those few precious words. Her world
had always been dangerous, uncertain, a ship heading for the shoals. She had
grown up mostly alone, among strangers, a modern-day feral child fighting
for scraps of food and attention, never receiving enough of either.
Most of it
she’d blocked out entirely, but when she tried—when one of the State shrinks
made her try—she could remember being hungry, wet, reaching out for a
mother who was too high to hear her or too strung out to care. She
remembered sitting for days in a dirty playpen, crying, waiting for someone
to remember her existence.
Now, she stared out the dirty window of a Greyhound bus. Her caseworker
sat beside her, reading a romance novel.
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