Miss Campbell walked round the table and picked up my hand. “Celeste, I cannot let you….”
“Please do not try and stop me,” I said, cutting her off before she could try and talk me out of anything. “I need to do this even if the outcome is a bad one. I have to see it through.”
Miss Campbell shook her head. “No Celeste, please hear me out. I was going to say I cannot let you do this alone. I will go to that address with you. We can explain it all and if they turn you away then at least you will have me there with you for support. Does all of that sound acceptable to you?”
I was still very upset and angry at Miss Campbell for keeping me in the dark all these years, for making me believe I was less than nothing to whoever had left me here as a baby. But at that moment, I knew I needed her s
