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I Took In My Closest Friend’s Child as My Own and Twelve Years Later, One Hidden Truth Tested Everything We Built

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Pictures of us holding hands.
Sitting together on the couch.

Then words.
Written in careful handwriting that grew steadier with time.
He wrote that he knew I was not his biological father.

That he once heard me crying.
That he wondered where he came from.