I Came Home in a Connecticut Storm to Find My Twins Locked Outside — By Morning, My Wife and Business Partner Were Gone With Everything

“You don’t need papers to be their mother. You already are.”

“I know,” she said. “But I want them to know it’s forever. I want them to understand I chose them. These are my daughters now—in my heart and, if possible, in law.”

The girls had started calling her “Mama Maria” on their own. Dr. Mitchell encouraged the adoption, explaining that children’s continue reading …