I blew out the candles on my birthday cake after my parents told me to make a wish. It was just my parents, my uncle Alfred and me, as always. Don't think it was a sad birthday party for me, it was all I had ever known, so i was as happy as I could be.

“What did you wish for, champ?” asked my dad while cutting the cake for all of us.

“I wished I could go to school,” I said. I didn’t mean to make them feel bad, and was happily surprised when my mom grinned and nodded at my uncle.

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