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

girlfriend.

My first love.

We started dating at 17 and stayed together through most of college.

I thought we’d get married.

She thought so too, at least for a while.

Then life became complicated.

I took a job in Chicago.

She stayed behind to care for her mother.

We tried long distance.

We failed at it.

There was no betrayal. No screaming breakup.

Just two people continue reading …