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First Day, Again

by Kimani Upshur, M.Ed.

Amara Ellis did not choose the move. One week her life is Columbus — her seat at lunch, her best friend Kayla, the map on her bedroom wall — and the next she is taping the last box shut, riding four hundred miles south, and standing in a Greenville cafeteria doorway with a tray in both hands, scanning tables of strangers who all already know where they belong. First Day, Again follows Amara through the last box, the long drive, the house that echoed, and the doorway itself — and through what comes after a first day: a seat saved by a kind stranger, a name learned and said right, a friendship learning to survive distance, and the moment she becomes the girl in the doorway who goes first for someone newer. Woven through it all is her grandmother's verse, Joshua 1:9 — "the LORD your God is with you wherever you go" — a promise Amara has to learn in hallways, not just hear in church. A contemporary story about starting over when you didn't choose to, told plainly and honestly for teens ages 13–18.

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