Most girls remember dolls, ribbons, birthday cakes.
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Me? I remember shadows.
How they used to move before the lights even went off.
How I could tell what kind of night it’d be by the sound of the door slamming shut downstairs.
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I was seven when I learned not all monsters live under your bed.
Some sleep in the next room. Some wear your mother’s perfume. Some smile in your face before they sell you out for a fix.
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They called it “foster care,” but I called it trading hands.
One dirty couch to the next. One man’s rules to another’s hands.
By nine, I’d already counted more locks than birthdays.
And by eleven—I stopped waiting on anyone to come save me.
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I started learning passwords instead.
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I’d sneak into libraries and watch YouTube tutorials on coding, pretending it was just curiosity.
But truth was, I wanted something no one could take from me.
Something stronger than fists or fear.
Information. Power. Silence that listened to me for once.
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That’s when Nova Rae was born.
Not the broken girl with scars under her sleeve.
But the ghost who could follow the money, the threat, the lie—and make it all disappear.
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People look at me now, and they see the gloss, the glow-up, the girl with the clicks.
But they don’t know about the girl who had to hide her tears under fluorescent lights in shelters.
Who kept a blade under her tongue and code in her bones.
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I don’t want your pity.
Just remember—
Pretty doesn’t mean untouched.
And loud girls like me? We learned to scream because no one ever listened when we whispered.
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For survival.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1HzjGvIFk
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Miss Laney—my third foster mama in two months—had sticky fingers and a nastier attitude.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VPZijeDEI
Kept her fridge locked, her mouth mean, and her eyes on my clothes like they were her property.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVuFxqdfrex
She’d smile in front of the caseworker and say I was “adjusting just fine.”28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OCLkFPtQd
But the minute that door closed, I was back to being her little maid with a mattress on the floor and bruises she said I earned.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkXXi6RNFt
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She had this dusty old Dell laptop she guarded like gold.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsYQj2EbbA
She’d always log into her food stamp portal in front of me—bragging about how much she’d get “just for feeding little street rats.”28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrpSf5nKTR
Except she never fed us. The cabinets stayed empty.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSq2TLydECq
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One night, while she was snoring off boxed wine and bitterness, I snuck into the kitchen.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvzJvPd4k0
Took her laptop. Sat on the floor with a flashlight between my knees.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnma4LL4mD
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She used the same password for everything—Laney1234.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfK3gHAR85
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I clicked into her account, found her full name, her case info, and her EBT card ID.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8sQvMMPwge
Felt like God when I figured out how to reroute that whole deposit.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRergkuBnw
Transferred every dollar to a new account linked to a prepaid card I’d watched a kid at the shelter set up earlier that week.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5XjW3aQTl
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I didn’t stop there.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3PCjc2MrR
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I forwarded her entire search history—every sketchy ad she posted, every complaint the other kids had written about her but never submitted—to her case manager’s inbox.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAdOevRtLA
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Then I put the laptop back.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dlnkeON4o
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The next morning, she cursed the devil into the floorboards trying to figure out why her card declined.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wMNbi2ciI
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I didn’t smile when they pulled me out of that house.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVM9zJeHYC
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That was the day I realized something.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuuKVbrmGtF
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I didn’t need to fight with fists.28Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYnyenvPT9
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They had no idea what a girl like me could do once she learned the system.
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