When the Eight-Year-Old Boy We Were Adopting Came Home With Everything He Owned in a Black Bag—Then My Missing Brother’s Watch Fell Onto His Bed
Then I recognized the danger in the word:
claiming.
Oliver was not property.
The agency located one paternal cousin we barely knew and two maternal relatives.
None sought placement.
Tessa Reed, Sarah’s older sister, had previously been contacted but had serious health issues and had declined full-time parenting while requesting ongoing contact.
That information had somehow never appeared prominently in the simplified profile Julian and I first received.
Oliver knew Aunt Tessa existed.
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