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I was seventeen the summer everything collapsed. We lived in a quiet suburb outside Portland, Oregon, where people waved politely at neighbors and kids rode bikes through cul-de-sacs. My family had adopted Elena Novak\u2014a shy, dark-haired girl from Ukraine\u2014when she was ten. I was twelve then, and although we weren\u2019t close, we coexisted easily, the way siblings sometimes do without thinking much about it. Nothing in our history hinted at the storm that was coming<\/p>\n

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It started on a Wednesday afternoon. I came home from baseball practice to find my parents sitting rigidly at the dining table, faces pale, eyes fixed on me like I was a stranger who had wandered into their house. Before I could ask what was wrong, my father slid his phone across the table. On the screen was a text message from Elena to a friend\u2014screenshotted and forwarded to my mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pregnant. It\u2019s Adrian\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I was seventeen the summer everything collapsed. We lived in a quiet suburb outside Portland, Oregon, where people waved politely at neighbors and kids rode bikes through cul-de-sacs. My family had adopted Elena Novak\u2014a shy, dark-haired girl from Ukraine\u2014when she was ten. I was twelve then, and although we weren\u2019t close, we coexisted easily, the…<\/p>\n

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