I was forty-one when I finally heard the word «Dad.» It didn’t come from a child who shared my last name or my DNA. It came from a quiet four-year-old girl who had spent far too much of her young life believing that no one would ever keep her.
My wife, Hannah, and I had dreamed of becoming parents for almost a decade. We had endured years of fertility treatments, heartbreaking disappointments,
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