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

in my entire life.

One afternoon, Diane sat across from me in my parents’ living room.

“I need to ask something uncomfortable.”

“Okay.”

“Are you doing this because of Rachel?”

I looked at her.

“Partly.”

She waited.

I continued.

“Rachel is why I walked through the door.”

“And Maisie?”

I thought about the little girl who now laughed every time I pretended to sneeze.continue reading …