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CHAPTER THREE

IT WAS PRETTY COOL when my little brother came along. I was so used to being the youngest that it was great to finally have someone I could boss around. Shane was a tiny little kid, always the smallest in any group. And yeah, I belted him a couple of times. But I also looked after him. One of my jobs was to make sure he got to, and home from, school … ‘Mum!’ I screamed. I was hysterical, tears rolling down my cheeks after catching the bus home. ‘I’ve lost Shaney. He was there and then he wasn’t. I can’t find him anywhere.’ I was terrified. We were coming home from school and he just vanished; on the bus with me one minute, gone the next. Mum laughed. ‘Go and look inside,’ she said.

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