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"The Placement Agency" by Tobias Buckell

LeVar Burton Reads

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What Will We Do on the Other Side?

I cannot leave him to the foster system. I tasted that myself. What will we do on the other side? The child asked. I don't know. I have barely planned that far ahead. I have only known that i have seen something wrong, and have tried to fix itat first, i'd only done what i'd been told, kept an eye on the children. They ignored mei not their first caretaker. I was just the latest. But then one of them wandered up to me, stared right down through me and into my soul and asked, what is it outside? And that had shaken me, because until then, i'd assumed none of them knew there was

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