Audiobook Reading My Sister's Keeper
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EnglishVoice Age
Teen (13-17)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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when I was little. The great mystery to me wasn't how babies were made, but why the mechanics? I understood my older brother Jesse had filled me in, although at the time I was sure he'd heard half of it wrong. Other kids my age were busy looking up the words ***** and ****** in the classroom dictionary when the teacher had her back turned. But I paid attention to different details, like why some mothers only had one child while other families seemed to multiply before your eyes. Or how the new girl in school, Sedona, told anyone who'd listen that she was named for the place where her parents were vacationing. When they made her good thing, they weren't staying in Jersey City. My father used to say, Now that I am 13 thes distinctions are Onley more complicated. The eighth grader who dropped out of school because she got into trouble a neighbor who got herself pregnant in the hopes it would keep her husband from filing for divorce. I'm telling you, if aliens landed on Earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people have Children by accident or because they had too much to drink on a certain night or because birth control isn't 100%.