Me convertí en madre a los diecisiete años y pasé dieciocho años creyendo que el niño que amaba había huido de nosotros. Entonces mi hijo hizo una prueba de ADN para encontrar a su padre, y un mensaje sacó el piso de debajo de todo lo que pensaba que sabía.

La graduación de Leo me hizo algo.

Lately, though, he’d been asking more about Andrew.

I’d always told him the truth as I understood it. I got pregnant at seventeen, when Andrew and I were wrapped up in first love. When I told him, he smiled and nodded, promising we’d figure it out together.

The next day, he disappeared. He never came back to school. When I ran to his house that afternoon, there was a “FOR SALE” sign in the yard, and the

family

was gone.