his family wished privacy in this matter. Situation. Matter. And again, privacy. The words disturbed me, but beneath the disturbance was something I wasn’t used to feeling. I walked through my days feeling weighed down by a peculiar, polarizing heaviness. I wanted to hide. It was shame, I realized. The Walden family wished privacy in the matter of me.
When I first ran into the discovery about who my birth father was, I was half-expecting their family to react this way. I was delighted when it was absolutely the opposite!
