Author Reading Trident Bookstore and Cafe
"Isn't it strange to think that for so long your children were your only blood relatives? You smile, remembering when you held them and rocked them while that thought went through your head over and over again. And you cried when each of your boys turned 18 months old, because that's how old you were when you were removed from your family. You studied their innocent faces, felt the power of their entire trust in you for being there for them. And you knew you would do whatever it took to keep your children with you. Whatever. It. Took."