“And which one is that?”
“They need safety. I can give them that.”
I promised I would never expect two babies to heal me.
“And which one is that?”
“They need safety. I can give them that.”
I promised I would never expect two babies to heal me.
“I don’t want them to save me,” I said. “I want to become a home for them.”
Andrea told me to prove it, so I did. I cleaned the house, completed every class, bought diapers, and prepared the nursery. I kept the walls yellow. I could not erase Sarah and Ivy. I could only make room for Emily and Grace beside them.
Months later, the twins came home as my foster daughters. The adoption followed once the court completed the case. I became their father one mistake at a time.
PART 2
The years passed through bottles, fevers, school plays, missing teeth, parent meetings, and two different birthday cakes because Emily preferred vanilla while Grace demanded chocolate. After the adoption case closed, Andrea returned the beach towels to me, and I stored them inside a cedar box.