It was a week before Thanksgiving, and while her neighbors and friends were getting ready to kick off the winter holiday season, a 12-year-old Brittny Helen’a Cole Ferguson was about to go through her first significant life experience. It was the middle of the night, and she woke up surrounded by heavy white smoke. At first, it seemed like a dream, but Brittny quickly realized she was awake, and something was terribly wrong.

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