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Meet Taylor, from Suddenly Rural Girl

Dakota Moore is a conflicted teen wrestling with faith and friendship, and each new person she meets brings a new adventure–including this dragon-doodling classmate.

“Did you see what Taylor was wearing?” One of them said
through her nose. “…some skintight black Poet shirt. Like she’s going to a creepy goth funeral.”

But Taylor has a kind heart and some hidden secrets:

She held a sketch notebook in front of her and was doodling. With only a glance, I could tell this girl was some kind of an artist. I slipped past her desk toward my new seat and admired her science-fiction fantasy sketch-
es…

Taylor’s lips parted into a genuine smile, and the melancholy girl next to me was transformed into a beaming teenage girl—who was missing her front left tooth. My eyes shifted briefly to the small dark rectangle
where the tooth should have been, and her wide grin immediately vanished. Taylor pulled in her thin lips, drawing them into a flat line where her smile had just been.

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