We Thought Our Mother Abandoned Us—Until I Heard My Adoptive Mom Say, “Everything Went According to Plan”

them?”

Clara snorted.

“Of course they do. Why wouldn’t they? I told them that from the beginning.”

My breath caught.

Then Clara said the words that tore my childhood in half.

“Their mother never abandoned them. She came back. She begged for them. She wrote letters for years.”

The cake slipped from my hands.

It hit the floor with a soft, terrible thud.

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