A Woman Adopted a 5-Year-Old Girl Because She Couldn’t Have Children – Two Weeks Later, She Came to Her Sister in Tears and Said, ‘You Won’t Believe What I Found Out About This Child’

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Over the following days, Nora, Tom, and I spoke with the adoption professionals handling the records review.

    I couldn’t tell which one to believe.

An attorney explained that even if the genetic connection was confirmed, it wouldn’t automatically settle the legal questions surrounding Ellie’s adoption.

Ellie would remain in her familiar home while the adults sought answers.

    Ellie would remain in her familiar home.

Whatever the records eventually proved, none of us wanted her to feel that loving one of us meant losing another.

I couldn’t bear the thought of frightening her.

We also requested the hospital records surrounding Lucy’s reported death.

An independent genetic test was arranged with proper consent.

    I couldn’t bear the thought of frightening her.

Waiting for the results was miserable.

I still went to work.

I bought groceries.

I answered messages.

But every time my phone rang, I stopped whatever I was doing.