Someone can betray your trust and still have been important.

You can forgive someone and still wish they had made different choices.

You can love the parent who raised you while wanting information about the person who gave birth to you.

No single label solves everything.

Hope grew up knowing the truth gradually.

That was deliberate.

Julian and I made one agreement after the hospital.

We would never build another family relationship around a secret that belonged to somebody else.