Chapter 7

I returned to the orphanage where I had grown up. After Kendra Bourbon, the director of the orphanage, passed away, the place closed because of a lack of funding. Gone was the noise and warmth that once filled the small, run-down building. Moss patched the courtyard walls while the iron gate rusted through. I stood outside the gate, a familiar sting growing in my eyes. I'd been abandoned at an orphanage doorstep when I was just a child. Ms. Bourbon took me in and raised me. Once, she was the only good thing in my life, but she passed away from illness when I was in college. I never had the chance to repay her. Just like that, I had lost the only family I had in this world. She always said, "Carol, be someone who holds onto the light within." That phrase stayed with me through the years. I had the means now, and I'll keep her legacy of kindness alive. … After three months of work, the orphanage was restored. I gave it a new name, Sunshine. Just as Ms. Bourbon was a beacon for