I adopted a five-year-old girl I found wrapped in my late daughter’s jacket – years later, she handed me a note and said, “Your daughter asked me to give this to you today.”

I’ve been dragging around suddenly wanted somewhere to go.”

Daniel stared at the table for a long moment.

The director explained that her mother was dead, her father was unknown.

Then he said, “Do you want to visit her?”

I nodded.

The children’s home was smaller than I expected. Ava would not look at us at first. She sat in a plastic chair, twisting the continue reading …