
We Adopted a 4-Year-Old Girl – A Month Later, My Wife Said, ‘We Need to Return Her. What Changed her Mind?
She was small, with wide brown eyes and wild curls, smelling of baby shampoo and fresh grass. She clung to me as if she had already decided I was hers, as if she instinctively knew this was home. Claire and I had fought for this moment—years of failed pregnancies, years of heartbreak. When we turned…