I said how much we loved her. That she was not our daughter by any claim of birth, but she was our daughter by every claim of love. How sometimes when you do what you think is a kind thing, like taking in a needy child, you can pat yourself on the back. But how we received far more than we ever gave. She was God’s gift to our family. I described how she’s buried on our farm, and when our family got together to try to think of what to put on her tombstone, we found this saying: “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” I said to the judge, “Love is that
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