The Substitute Brother
Language: en
When I was five years old, my dad got called back to the office and told my older brother to take me home. Instead, my brother got into a fight with some other kids, leaving me completely alone, and I was kidnapped. Three years later, egged on by my brother, my parents adopted another girl. Seven years after that, the police finally brought me home. Due to severe, long-term malnutrition, I was painfully thin and frail. The adopted girl clung to my mother's arm and whispered, "Why is she so dirty? She doesn't look like your daughter at all." From that day on, my parents couldn't stand…