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Brave Dave
Brave Dave had always felt empty in his life although a happy family surrounded him. He had his foster parents, Lisa and Rufus as well his kid stepsister Alana who were always there for him. Yet, there were times when he felt that he really missed something in his life. He felt sojourned living in the small, which was about two miles from a big city where he believed his dad lived.
The truth is that Dave had always wanted to reunite with his real dad whom he knew so little about. The only valuable memory of his parents was on an old photo of his dad and his foster family when his visited them while Dave was barely 6 years old. Since then 5 years had already passed without hearing from him. Nobody seemed to know about the currently

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