Claire and I spent too much time trying for a child. After several IVF attempts and exhausting medical appointments, we chose to adopt a 4-year-old girl named Sophie because.
She was everything we could have ever imagined. She had been in the care system from the day she was born, yet she was the most gorgeous young child.
She began phoning her parents on the first day. Life finally looked ideal until one day I came home to find Sophie clinging to my leg and declaring she didn’t want to leave our house.
I didn’t understand what she was saying. I reassured her, “You’re not leaving. Then I saw Claire, however.
She gazed at me with tears in her eyes, as if she had done something wrong. She replied, “I think we should give her back, but we need to talk.”
