Adoption Hearing Takes Dramatic Turn After Girl Breaks Her Silence
Hope, Not Goodbye
Olive spoke with a courage far beyond her years. She wasn’t saying she didn’t want the Quinns. She was saying she needed space to find every piece of herself first. “I want to be adopted,” she said. “But I don’t want to close the door on where I came from.”
It was a complicated truth, but it was hers. The courtroom didn’t buzz this time. It simply listened. And then it understood. This wasn’t about rejection. It was about healing. About giving a little girl permission to carry all parts of herself into her future.
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