My Mother-in-Law Saw My Newborn Daughter’s Arm and Went Pale—Then She Told Us We Couldn’t Keep Her

The relationship lab estimated several days for preliminary kinship analysis and longer if additional testing became necessary.

Several days.

When your entire marriage feels suspended over one question, several days is a very long time.

PART 8 — MY MOTHER

I had almost nothing from my mother’s childhood.

Margaret Lawson died when I was twelve.

Car accident.

My grandparents raised me afterward.

Both were gone now too.

I knew my mother had been adopted.