The Photo That Brought Us Back: An Adoption Story About Second Chances and Family

houses and trees. He looked up.

She saw a loneliness that matched her own. She asked his name. Daniel, he said. She kept it, not because it was easy, but because it was already his, and because it was the name we once dreamed for a child we never had.

I turned back to the photo. The child’s smile reached up and steadied something in me. “He looks a little continue reading …