I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

told me the truth — that they’d made a choice, and that choice wasn’t about me. It took me years to really understand that.”

She looked at me.

“But I understand now. And I know that everything I have, everything I am, is because you never let their choice define us.”

She raised her glass.

“To the family we build. Not the one we’re born into.”

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