The For gotten Family by Meryl Matthews really made me think. In this story, a wealthy couple with fertility problems during the late 1800s did what many people in that situation typically do. They decided to adopt. In this case, a two-year-old girl from the slums. Fun Fact , that was what poorer neighborhoods were referred to at the time. Now, the Bonners actually had a decent reason to give up their youngest. Not just because she was an unplanned pregnancy, which she likely was, since with two drunkard parents who couldn’t be bothered with any kind of improvement that didn’t instantly increase their finances, another baby was the last thing needed. Neither of her birth parents had any real interest in having a family, which is why the kids basically raised themselves, and very well I may add. Queenie was only thirty months old, and very eloquent for her age, given the circumstances, and able to physically and verbally assert herself, and they made it clear that they...
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