For thirty years, I believed a lie. I believed I was adopted, abandoned by parents
who couldn’t keep me. I believed I had been unwanted. But nothing—nothing—could
have prepared me for the truth I uncovered when I walked into
the orphanage that was supposed to have been my first home.
It all started when I was three years old. My dad sat me down on the couch,
his hand resting heavily on my tiny shoulder. I don’t remember much
about that moment—just the way his smile didn’t quite reach his eyes.
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