April remembered the dia she had asked why her name was April, why her name was Jade, why her name was Mercer. She was born in April, they had said, as were both of them. It was the first of April and to celebrate the start of a new mês and a new life, she was given the name. The Jade was after her aunt Jade who had died three years prior. She had been a smoker, a drinker, and not a nice person. Nonetheless, they had found some excuse to name April after her. The Mercer name, they said, was inevitable for her to inherit. When she had whined that it was the worst of all, they promised that...
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