I went to the county archive in Bellwether the next morning with the brass hospital tag and June's old clipping.
The clerk brought me a file in a gray box and asked me to sign a receipt. I read the receipt before signing it.
The file had a hospital intake sheet, a child-services report, and a copy of the public notice June had placed in the newspaper. The intake sheet named the hospital where I had been born. The child-services report said I had been found in a laundry basket outside Bell Auto & Tire at 6:12 a.m. on February 4.
The report described the basket as blue, lined with a wool blanket. The paper said I had no identifying clothing, only the brass tag.
A later entry said a hospital worker called the number listed on an old Ashcombe Foundation donor card. It did not explain why t
