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At eight years old, Lily stood in the middle of the polished marble lobby, her small, dirt-streaked toes leaving faint red prints on the floor. Her lungs felt like crushed glass. She had carried nine-year-old Noah—a boy easily twice her weight—for seven long blocks across asphalt heated by the scorching afternoon sun. Her bare feet were blistered and bleeding, but she hadn’t stopped once. Not when her knees buckled. Not when her arms trembled so hard her bones felt like cracking.