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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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Red-haired.
He stared at the doorway, waiting for someone who was never coming back.

There was no extended family.
No one else stepped forward.
In that moment, something inside me settled into place.

A certainty I had never felt before.
I signed the papers that same day.