The Photograph That Led Me to My Twins—and the Letters My Mother Hid for Three Years
She said any attempt to bring the children into the Mercer family would turn into an ugly legal battle.”
“I never authorized that.”
“I believe you didn’t write it.
That doesn’t mean I was safe.”
She explained how frightened she had been, first during the pregnancy and later with two newborns who depended on her for everything.
The legal threats had arrived while she was learning to feed them and sleeping in fragments.
She had not needed another confrontation with an influential family that seemed able to reach into every part of her life.
“So I kept the letters,” she said.
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