Twelve years ago, I promised my missing sister’s children they would never be abandoned. I kept that promise the best I could. Then her youngest son came home from school, looked me in the eye, and said he was finally ready to tell me the truth.
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I never thought I would write this, but twelve years after I lost my sister, I found her alive in the cellar of an abandoned chapel.
After her husband died of cancer, I was at her house almost every day. She had nine children. Some were adopted, some were biological, and all of them were hers completely.
The night she disappeared, a storm rolled in so hard the windows shook. She asked me to watch the kids while she went into town. Her car had gone off the road under a fallen tree.
I didn’t laugh when I had to use them.
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