Chapter 145

‘So how did you end up all the way here?’ I ask her hoping she’s okay with the question.

‘Its a very long story and I know it is hard to believe but before I lived with mom and dad and we were happy, that is until things started changing and one day they decided to leave me at an adoption home’.

‘I cannot remember much but what I do remember is the feeling that came along with it. They way I felt when they told me that they were leaving me and that they would come back for me, they said I had to behave and be on my best behavior or else they weren’t going to bring me any gifts’.

The look on Evelyn’s face as she tells me about her childhood makes me automatically break down, silent tears going down my cheek. ‘Every year , I waited and waited for them to come back for me with the gifts they promised me. Until I was I think 10’ she stops to wipe the lone tear that has escaped her eye. I can tell that she is trying to not remember the painful childhood she had.