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Part One

Chapter 1

9 April 2003 – Los Angeles, USA

The day everything changed

Morning

HANNAH SHAPIRO WAS having a wonderful day

Presents and lass – but a twelfth birthday needed hter of the Co Shabbat But Saturday was three days away!

‘Co, take a sip …’ Jessica, her mother, said, her southern accent sweet and el’s tears in a glass’

And so she had Even though she didn’t like the taste of alcohol, Hannah loved herin the world and wouldn’t think of disappointing her She sipped, then half spluttered, half laughed ‘I’ve got bubbles in my nose’

‘That’s what you pay the good money for, sweetheart!’

Hannah laughed with her