Chapter 76

Shannon

What Vernon said did make me realize that I never seemed to understand myself. I never even considered who my parents were. I just assumed they died in war. But what if they didn't die? But that would mean that they just left me there... An infant was left in the woods to die.

What kind of parents would do that? I now remember why I didn't try to find out more about my parents because the truth was harder to swallow. But it was never a good thing to run away from your roots, what if I had some genetic disease I didn't know about?

And maybe they didn't mean to leave me behind, maybe they just didn't have any choices, who knows?

I didn't know why I had never considered finding my parents. The concept of family was instilled in me when I married Terry, he was my one and only family. But then he left me. Just like my own family did...

I thought about my past so hard that I didn't realize it was getting dark, and I heard Vernon yawn. He must be tired.