Tommy Reed’s fourteenth birthday didn’t begin like most kids’ birthdays. There were no balloons, no cakes with flickering candles, no friends waiting outside the house with gifts in hand. Instead, it ended with him standing alone in a driveway, a worn backpack slung over his shoulders and twelve dollars in his pocket. His stepfather had told him to leave — the words sharp, final, and uncompromising — and his mother, though present, said nothing. The door closed behind him, not just the…
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