I Took My Nephew From a Shelter After His Mother Abandoned Him—Fifteen Years Later, He Held Her Life in His Hands

it bother you?” I asked him once when I noticed him eating lunch alone at the school picnic. “That you don’t have a lot of friends?”

He shrugged. “I have you. And I have my books. That’s enough.”

But I could see the loneliness in his eyes sometimes, and it broke my heart all over again.

When Ethan turned fourteen, everything changed. He came to me one continue reading …