Adoption Hearing Takes Dramatic Turn After Girl Breaks Her Silence
The Start of Her Story
From the beginning, Olive’s life was marked by absence. Her birth mother left her at the hospital—a decision driven by desperation or fear, no one could say. What Olive knew was that her story started without a mother’s arms to hold her. She grew up among strangers, part of a system that did its best but could never quite fill the void. Still, she learned to adapt.
To be grateful. There was shelter, food, structure. But never permanence. Never home. She didn’t remember her parents’ faces. All she had were questions—and the quiet hope that one day, she’d belong somewhere.
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