SAY YES

"Say yes, mommy. Please?"

I look at the happy chubby kid shouting her plea from the crowd behind me. As if she understands what saying yes to this means. Kids nowadays, though! But for her too, I want this. I want to be the mother she never had. I want to give her a complete family she both deserves and longs for. I love her like my own, and I vouch she will never know the discrepancy between her and my own children, because I consider her my first child. I want to make ...