We walked across the lawn together.
This time I knocked harder.
The woman opened the door.
The moment she saw me, her face went pale.
“Nineteen years ago,” I asked, “did you adopt a baby boy from the hospital placement program?”
Behind her, Tyler appeared in the hallway.
“What’s going on?” he asked.
Carl looked at him carefully.
“When is your birthday?”
Tyler answered.
It was the exact day Daniel had been born.
A man stepped into the hallway behind him and sighed deeply.
“We always knew this day might come,” he said.
The Truth
They invited us inside.
Tyler had spent months in neonatal care before finally going home with them.
The hospital arranged the adoption.
