The Photograph That Led Me to My Twins—and the Letters My Mother Hid for Three Years
Each had been marked for family review.
Several had been copied, opened, and returned without ever reaching me.
“I knew it wasn’t right,” she admitted.
“Mrs.
Mercer told me you didn’t want to be interrupted.
After a while I was afraid to admit how much I had kept back.”
“Why preserve them?” Savannah asked.
“Because I was ashamed enough to know they should have been delivered, but not brave enough to deliver them.”
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