Welcome to the Family
Henry Catherine and I lie on the bed just looking into each other’s eyes. “Henry, you must listen to me now.” Nodding my head and closing my eyes I mumble “Sure” I am the most exhausted I have been in a long time but it is a very good and satisfying exhausted. “Henry, Mary is dead and Adelyn is now my daughter.” My eyes spring open. “Did you say Mary is dead? Oh, Catherine, I am so sorry.” I take her face in my hands. She continues looking at me. “She died during childbirth and her husband left the same day. I have been raising Adelyn ever since. So if you come home with me, we come as a package.” Now I understand why the child had Catherine’s eyes, it is because both Mary and Cather
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