“I want an answer I can trust.”

Eventually she chose a legally documented relationship test with Denise as an aunt-level comparison, supported by original records where available.

The laboratory warned that complex family relationships require careful interpretation.

The result strongly supported the expected biological relationship, and the agency’s newly recovered birth documentation linked the name Lucy Price to Paige’s original identity.

We sat around the dining table when she read the report.

“My name was Lucy,” she said quietly.