'Strangers?" Stephanie took two steps back. The word hurt her deeply.

Is there something more miserable for a mother than being taken as a stranger by her own child? But who was the one to blame? Though she didn't want to keep this child at first, she had got no control of the things that happened after he was born. She had been unable to leave the bed for two months after the child's birth.

None of Stephanie and Liz gave in. Looking at her child in Liz's arms, Stephanie was ...