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Inside this Book – After meeting Joaquin, Maya had a hard time sleeping. Our foster mom found out that she was gay so she kicked her out. Bio always trumps foster. And yes, Maya knew that she was adopted, not fostered, that she had been adopted out of the hospital, that her parents had chosen her, wanted her. That’s what they always said, that she was chosen because she was special. And yet, she wasn’t Lauren. Three a.m. would come and Maya would lie awake in bed and watch lights from the cars outside pass across her ceiling, lighting her room before it fell dark again. She would look at websites on her phone. (She had done the “Which Hogwarts House Do You Belong To?” quiz at least three times, and got Hufflepuff each time, which infuriated her.) Then she would scroll through old messages from Claire, emojis and xoxo’s and notes that were so private that Maya would throw her phone into a toilet before she let anyone read them. She would look at the very end of the messages and hope that the little bubbles would pop up that meant Claire was testing her, that she would somehow know that Maya was alone in the world and that the middle of the night felt lonelier than any other time of day.