A Woman Adopted a 5-Year-Old Girl Because She Couldn’t Have Children – Two Weeks Later, She Came to Her Sister in Tears and Said, ‘You Won’t Believe What I Found Out About This Child’

and complicated family histories.
We discussed how to eventually explain the situation to Ellie.

How to answer her questions honestly.

How to avoid making her feel responsible for the adults’ fear.

And how to ensure she understood that nobody was asking her to stop loving anyone.

We agreed that she would remain in her familiar home with Nora and Tom while the legal questions were addressed.

I continued visiting.

Sometimes, I brought coloring books.

Sometimes, we baked cookies.

Sometimes, Ellie just wanted me to sit beside her while she talked