I thought about the Morgans—two strangers who had lost a child while another was placed in their arms by mistake. And my parents—the people who had loved me, even if they now hated me. I didn’t know who I was supposed to feel loyalty toward anymore.
That night, I sat in my car outside the hospital again, watching the light in Emily’s window flicker. I pressed my forehead against the steering wheel. I wasn’t a match, but I still loved her. She was my sister in every way that mattered—except blood.
A month passed before I decided to contact the Morgans. They lived in Eugene, Oregon, in a modest house at the edge of town. When I knocked on their door, a middle-aged woman answered. Her eyes—hazel like mine—widened the moment she saw me.
“Grace?” she whispered.
My throat tightened. “I… I think I might be.”
Tears filled her eyes before I could explain further. She called for her husband, and soon they were both holding me as if I might vanish again. They told me about the night their daughter disappeared—how a nurse had wheeled her to the nursery for routine tests, and by morning, she was gone. No trace. No closure.
When I told them what had happened, that I’d grown up believing I was someone else’s child, they didn’t ask for proof right away. They simply wept. Later, DNA testing confirmed everything: I was their missing daughter.
The Morgans welcomed me with warmth and guilt intertwined. They wanted to know everything about my life—my favorite foods, the way I laughed, the small things they’d missed. But every conversation felt like a betrayal of the people who’d raised me.
Back in Seattle, Emily’s condition worsened. I couldn’t stay away any longer. When I entered her room, she looked so small beneath the hospital sheets. My mother sat beside her, eyes hollow.
“I’m sorry,” I said quietly.
She didn’t look up. “Sorry doesn’t save her.”
I placed the envelope on the table—the genetic reports, the truth they never knew. “I was tested months ago,” I said. “I’m not a match because I’m not your biological daughter. I didn’t tell you because I didn’t know how.”
Silence filled the room. Then my father stood, his face pale. “What are you saying?”
“That there was a mistake—twenty-four years ago. You lost your real daughter, and I was put in her place.”
My mother covered her mouth, trembling. Emily, barely conscious, opened her eyes. “You’re still my sister,” she whispered.
I broke then, sobbing for all of us—for the lives we’d lost, the lies none of us had chosen.
Weeks later, Emily received a transplant from a distant cousin and began to recover. My parents couldn’t look at me the same, but time softened their anger into sorrow. I split my life between two families, two histories, trying to build something honest from the ruins.
And sometimes, when I visit both homes—the Morgans’ quiet Oregon house and the one I grew up in—I realize something simple and cruelly beautiful: blood makes u
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