She got pregnant.
She gave birth alone.
She held the baby once.
Then she gave her up for adoption and buried the memory so deeply she convinced herself it never existed.
“I wasn’t lying to hurt you,” Carol said through tears. “I was lying to survive.”
Lauren didn’t know how to respond.
She only knew that the woman she trusted most had carried a secret for 31 years.
And that secret now had a name.
Emily.
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