My Classmates Teased Me for Being a Pastor’s Daughter – But My Graduation Speech Silenced the Entire Hall

said I should’ve never existed.”

When I walked into my parents’ house that afternoon, everyone was there.

Tears filled her eyes. “He meant the claim. The fight. The danger.”

“I’m not a claim,” I said. “I’m a person.”

She cried then. “I know.”

I stood up. “I’m going back there.”

“Don’t go alone.”

“I’m done being handled.”

Ava looked like she hadn’t slept.

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