"Your situation is of course different, and for the most part I agree with your reasoning that Weatherford is a little close for what you want to do, ...but please do not reject it for just that reason. As to the others, I really cannot fault your reasoning. Michigan State sounds like a very good place for you, but, as you say, getting accepted could be a problem. I would, however, point out that you might wish to give a little more attention to Southern Michigan, mostly because it is new and. “Okay I’ll begin work right away,” she said.“Whip me up a contract covering what we just talked about and I’ll run it past Marcy,” I said.That is how a week later I ended up posing with Jasper Amos and his dogs. Willow showed up after me, so I was shocked. I hadn’t seen her in six months. The change in her was amazing. She had lost almost half her body weight. She looked very nice. Her skin was a little saggy, but she still looked a 1000% better.“Wow, you are beautiful,” I said.“Not yet, but. It was new, it was sporty, and it was exactly the kind of car that I would want someday…a chick mobile. It was the kind that old men could afford.I walked around the house looking for a way to see inside. I know they had used the bedroom and the living room so I was hoping that they were someplace where I could see in. No such luck, everything was buttoned up tightly. However, I could see an occasional flash coming from the second floor window of our exercise room. I hid in the bushes and just. .. you sickened. We didn't want Aedan to live in the shadow of the sister he had lost so we didn't tell anyone. We loved you so much, and missed getting to know you every day."Pup, you must protect your sister." Aedan swore he would, and I grinned at him. "And Sierra - you belong here, my darling. Stop questioning it, and just believe. For me?"I felt tears trickling down my face. He called me daughter. And with that, I finally allowed myself to hope that maybe this really was where I belonged..