"Please, just let me hold her," she pleaded, "just once?"
             "I'm sorry," replied the plump nurse coldly, "but I have my orders, and besides, it will only make things that much worse." To an outsider, it was a heart-wrenching scene. To the hospital, it was something that they dealt with on a daily basis. To her family, it was a mistake that never should have happened. To Sara, it was a day that changed her life forever.
             "Katie, I can't look-tell me what it says," requested Sara Holten.
             "Do you really want to know?"asked her best friend Katie Landiman, comparing the results to the package instructions.
             "I have to know, I don't have a choice here."
             "It's positive Sara, you're pregnant," Katie said reaching out to comfort her friend with a hug, wishing she could help more.
             "How could you do this to us?" was the only thing Mr. and Mrs. Holten said when Sara told them. Her mother cried, and her father just turned away from her and didn't say anything. Her boyfriend Joel just reminded her that he had a football scholarship, and that he was in no position to take care of a child. He offered to pay for her to 'take care of it', and she left before he could say another word.
             Sara was only sixteen, but up until now, she was considered very mature and responsible for her age. She had a 3.7 grade point average in high school. She was going to graduate a year early, and had even begun to take classes at the local community college. She felt that she could, and wanted more than anything to take care of this baby, but They wouldn't allow it. Once her parents finally decided to talk to her, they gave her a choice...well an ultimatum really. They first tried to convince her to have an abortion, "it will solve everything," they insisted. When she refused to even talk
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