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My mom brought home an eight-year-old girl with special needs from the dump. She couldn't speak, couldn't smile, and her eyes were vacant, just like a puppet. All the relatives called my mom crazy. "You can barely put food on the table for your own family, and you still bring home a dumb girl to raise?" My mom shot back, "She's got a life, too." From that day on, I had a little sister. I fed her meals, showed her how to get dressed, and stood up for her when the village kids threw rocks at us. For fifteen years, she never said a single word. Then, on my wedding day, she suddenly came running into the hall and clung tightly to my wedding dress. Her very first words left all three hundred guests completely speechless. I tossed the bouquet aside. "This wedding is off," I announced. The groom's face went pale.