She wasn’t sure she was making the right decision. There was no one to tell her if digging into her past was a good idea or not. Her parents really had done everything so she wouldn’t feel like she’d been adopted, and Susan had always behaved like a real mother. Since arriving in Bangkok, it had occurred to her several times that perhaps her life might have been easier had her parents kept the truth from her, or had never told her she’d been born in Thailand and not America. She didn’t know what had changed by learning she had been brought from Bangkok. After all, she had known she was adopted since she was a child. Each night, when Lian went to bed in her hotel room and turned off her bedside lamp, she thought about all the things she didn’t understand. She was so confused. Only twenty ye
