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    "Hey, we should get inside now. It’s getting really cold here."

    "I still wanna hang around a little more Auntie Kit, please."

    "Your Mommas will be arriving soon. They would kill me if they would know I let you out," Kit said glancing back and forth from her niece to the front door.

    "Don’t worry. This is our little secret."

    Kit gave her niece a wide smile and handed her the blanket she was carrying. "Thanks, Auntie Kit." They fell silent for a couple of minutes and just then Tyler started talking again to break the coldness of the silence in the middle of the night.

    "Can I ask you something?"

    "Of course, anything, baby girl," Kit replied moving nearer to her niece so that they would be facing each other.

    "Umm uh. Do you think my moms love me?"

    "What?! Where is this coming from? Of course they love you. You are their angel."

    "Yeah, I know but I’m not from one of them. I mean, they just adopted me, right? Their blood doesn’t run through my veins," Tyler said trying to stop the tears that was forming in her eyes. She knows well enough that the best she can do right now is stop herself from crying.

    "Baby girl, what happened? Is there something wrong? You can tell me, you know. Please talk to me," Kit, now worried looked serious as she tried to figure out what’s happening to her niece.

    "It’s really nothing. I feel suddenly tired. Can I – " Tyler tried to stand but felt weak. She stayed on her sit and looked at her aunt. As she looked straight to Kit’s eyes she knows at that very moment that she could trust the woman in front of her. That she could at least trust someone to understand her fears and her frustrations. "I’m scared. I’m really scared that sometimes I wish I’d just die. Sometimes I feel like I owe my life to my moms yet I don’t even know how to repay them. And sometimes, they feel so far away that I couldn’t even touch them. Sometimes I wonder if they’ll ever think of getting rid of me because of my stupid illness. And I love them so much that it kills me, thinking that one day, I might not be able to be with them anymore," Tyler paused as she noticed that she can’t stop herself from crying anymore. Kit moved closer and hugged her niece. "And I wanna do a lot of things. I wanna do things with my moms, with my aunts and with my little sister but I feel so limited. I feel so fragile and sometimes it hurts. The pain becomes so unbearable that I wish I’m no longer human."