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When Jayden Daniels was a little kid, he’d get invited to sleepovers at friends’ houses and the evening would follow a familiar script. His mom, Regina Jackson, remembers always getting her momentary respite interrupted by a phone call to pick him up before bedtime, with the additional request that everyone at the sleepover come stay at his house instead.
