Adoption Hearing Takes Dramatic Turn After Girl Breaks Her Silence
Noticing the Unsaid
Photos of smiling faces. Videos of shared joy. To anyone else, it was enough proof that Olive belonged. But not to the judge. He noticed her downcast eyes, her quiet shift in the chair.
He saw the questions behind her stillness. So, he asked a question that cut through the formality: “Would you support Olive if she ever wanted to find her birth parents?” The room stilled. The Quinns froze. Ana’s smile faltered just slightly. This wasn’t the direction they expected—but the judge knew that sometimes, the truest part of a story is the one no one wants to ask about.
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