After a frightening late-night call, I rushed to the hospital, where my husband, Michael, was holding a newborn girl named Lucy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Months earlier, we had applied to become emergency foster parents, so I believed we were simply welcoming a baby into our home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before we could leave, however, a doctor showed me a DNA report showing a 99.9 percent parent-child match between Lucy and me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was fifty-one and completely confused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then Eleanor, an elderly woman, arrived crying. She explained that her daughter, Anna, had died giving birth to Lucy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before dying, Anna had insisted that her baby be brought to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twenty-two years earlier, I had been told my newborn daughter had died after a medical emergency. I had mourned her ever since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The truth was devastating: Anna had been my daughter, and her records had been secretly altered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DNA report was corrected. I wasn\u2019t Lucy\u2019s mother\u2014I was her grandmother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At sunrise, Lucy came home with us, wrapped in the pink blanket I had saved for my lost baby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After twenty-two years, my daughter had finally brought her child home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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