After delivering a baby for a lonely mother, the doctor looked at the newborn’s face and dropped his instruments in shock. He stared into the baby’s distinct amber eyes and whispered, “where is the woman who brought you here?” The mother pointed to her bag, revealing an old photograph that solved a twenty-year-old mystery…

had drained to a sickly, ashen gray, and one of his gloved hands gripped the edge of the plastic bassinet so fiercely his knuckles were white. It was as if he needed the anchor to keep the earth from pulling him under. His eyes were rigidly locked onto my child’s tiny face—tracing the slope of the nose, the dark, damp tufts of hair, the furious little continue reading …