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WYATT
Talking to Haley every night and texting throughout the day helped me work through my identity crisis. Chatting with my sister on a daily basis proved almost as beneficial to setting my mind right too.
I expected I would have to sit down with Lionel and Tina at some point, but I wasn’t yet ready to face that emotional hurdle. Too much hurt burrowed deep inside me even though I understood their reasons for wanting to keep the truth from me.
As for my and River’s birth parents, I couldn’t contain the negative thoughts I had whenever wondering why they had abandoned us to the system.
By the time Friday night rolled around and I readied for my second date with Haley, I decided it was time to make a move. Once the weekend ended, I would look for a private investigator to assist in
