On Graduation Day an Orphan Girl Asked a Stranger to Pretend to Be Her Dad and What Happened Next Moved Everyone

or that conversations would begin about legal guardianship, or that a process would unfold over many months that was careful and thorough and that involved home studies and background checks and a family court judge who asked Lila, in a quiet office with a box of tissues on the desk, whether this was what she wanted. She did not know any of that yet.continue reading …