The Family Tree Has Many Branches
an excerpt

“In the safety deposit box there were some papers. In those papers he found adoption papers for a baby girl born on your birth date in Wisconsin. Trinity, your parents adopted you.” He told her.
Her jaw dropped. She felt numb. So many lies coming from so many people that supposedly loved her, but why did they feel they needed to lie? Why could they not have told her once she was old enough to understand? Lot’s of kids were adopted, but they were able to come to terms with the truth. Kieran was right this opened up questions that made her previous ones seem small. And the biggest questions of all were who was she really? How had she come to be adopted by the people that until this minute she had thought of as her parents? And just who were the people that had given her up & more importantly why had they done so? Her head was in a spin with all the thoughts swirling in circles. She felt tears staining her cheeks, but was unaware that she was crying. Kieran was wiping the tears away & holding her & trying to kiss her lips just to let her know that he was there & that he did not know what else to do or say. He drew her close & let her sob into his shirt. After what seemed like a long time, Kieran picked her up & carried her into the bedroom. They lie on the bed, him holding her & her continuing to sob until she exhaustedly fell into a restless sleep.
When she awoke, she felt ill & weak & she wondered where Kieran had gone. She got up & walked to the bathroom & threw some cold water on her face, hoping it would make her feel better, but it didn’t & she wondered if anything would make her feel better ever again? She dried her face & looked at her puffy from crying eyes in the mirror. Just who was she really? Had she had another name given to her by her birth parents? Did they love her? Did they think about her? Where were they? Who were they? Who the hell was she really?