When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”
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Chapter 6 - ADOPTION
I lived with Florence first as a foster child.
Then under long-term guardianship while courts dealt with my parents’ disappearance.
When I was eight, after years without contact and the necessary legal proceedings, Florence adopted me.
She asked before filing.
“Would you like me to be your mother legally too?”
I stared at her.
“Aren’t you already?”
Florence cried so hard she had to remove her glasses.
I became Nora Miller.
May you like
Not because my earlier life disappeared.
Because somebody had stayed long enough to give me a new legal one.
