Twenty Families Rejected My Daughter Because of Her Diagnosis—Then I Signed the Adoption Papers in Under Four Minutes

Rach.”

Then I said the only promise I felt I had the right to make.

“If they’ll let me, I’m going to make sure she has someone who stays.”

The next morning, I called Nora.

“I want to know what I have to do.”

There was a pause.

“To do what?”

“To be considered for Maisie’s placement.”

That began the longest process of my life.

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