Chapter 3

"You could say I was raised by everyone around me. If it weren't for all those kind folks, I wouldn't even be here today," I said.

"And Calliope only ever paid my school fees once. Since I was seven, I'd drag a sack around, digging through trash cans for cardboard boxes. Maybe I looked so pitiful that folks in my building would go out of their way to save boxes for me, so I could sell them and pay for school," I continued.

"I never got anything new to wear, just Leo's old clothes or whatever the neighbors handed down,"…