Daniel advised me to stop treating uncertainty as something I could solve through perfect behavior.

“They’ll tell you what they need,” he said.

“Your job is to listen.”

PART 8

The first official answer came from a box in a storage facility, not from the hospital.

My late husband’s older sister, Caroline, still lived in Dayton.

When I told her about the DNA match, she went silent for so long I thought the line had dropped.

“Caroline?”