At Christmas, My Parents Made My Adopted Daughter Wash Dishes. Then a Letter Revealed the Secret They Had Kept for Six Years.

I had never sent it.

Sandra spoke first.

“We need a preservation notice to the agency and hospital, and an independent family-law specialist to review the adoption judgment.

We should not contact the judge informally or assume the adoption can just be erased.”

Samuel nodded.

“Exactly.

Whatever went wrong, Chloe cannot be treated like a document to be moved between owners.”

I asked whether I could meet Camilla.