My Mother-in-Law Saw My Newborn Daughter’s Arm and Went Pale—Then She Told Us We Couldn’t Keep Her
No need to turn one woman into biology and the other into meaning.
Family was more complicated.
Better language helped.
PART 55 — MY MOTHER
I learned more about Margaret too.
She had apparently tried once to locate Lillian.
The agency refused contact because of old closed-adoption rules.
She never knew.
Never met her biological mother.
Never knew Richard had once claimed she was his daughter.
