I Gave Him to Her

Summary

I found my birth parents ten years too late.

All they left me was a house filled with my own baby pictures and mountains of missing-child flyers bearing my face.

The grief and injustice I had swallowed for twenty years erupted in that single moment.

I spun around and slapped my husband, Caleb, so hard the sound echoed in the empty room.

“This is your fault! All of it!”

“If you hadn’t pushed for Lila to take my adoption spot, I never would have been left to rot in that place for five more years!”