A Daughter Left Behind Finds Strength, Success, and the Family That Never Walked Away

whose turn it was to pick her up. She was only ten when she understood the truth.

They weren’t struggling. They weren’t overwhelmed. They had simply moved on to new households and new lives where she no longer seemed to fit.

Her father remarried first. He built a new home with Kristen, a woman who spoke in soft tones and wore a perfume Ivy could recognize continue reading …