I had been taken to the nearest hospital.
My name had been recorded incorrectly, and I had been unable to provide enough information to establish my identity. No one initially connected me to the missing child in the accident report.
The couple, Thomas and Helen Carter, visited me during my recovery.
They had no children of their own at the time.
They became attached to me and eventually began the process of adopting me.
The adoption was finalized legally after the authorities were unable to identify my biological family.
I read the pages twice.
My adoptive parents had never told me any of this.
I felt a strange mixture of grief, anger, and gratitude.
“Did they know who I was?”
Richard shook his head.
“From the records we’ve recovered, it appears they were never given enough information to identify your family. They knew you had been found after an accident, but the information available to them was incomplete.”