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Hand Me Down by Melanie Thorne6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() All the while, Liz is burdened by her stake in a bleak pact with a deceitful adult: to tell the truth about the darkest of her circumstances will cost her the ability to shelter Jaime. A string of broken promises propels Liz across two states as she searches for a safe home. When she chooses her new family over raising her first-born girls, Elizabeth and Jaime are separated and forced to rely on the begrudging kindness of increasingly distant relatives. ![]() Their mother, once a loving parent, finds love with a dangerous ex-con. Their father, who’d rather work the system than a job, pours every dollar into his many vices. ![]() Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Reid has spent her life protecting her sister, Jaime, from their parents’ cruel mistakes. ![]()
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