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

That part Beatrice was right about.

But my mother rarely discussed it.

Her adoptive parents had told her only that her birth mother was young and unmarried.

No father listed.

I had never pursued the records.

Why would I?

My family had been my family.

Now an old omission had become terrifying.

PART 9 — THE ADOPTION FILE

Because I was an adult descendant and the circumstances involved a legitimate medical-genetic question, an attorney helped us determine what records might lawfully be obtained.