It was impossible for Abby not to compare Eden’s children with her own, not to imagine herself in the same spot as Eden. Human beings always searched for connections even when there were none. She and Eden had come from the same place. Now, decades later, each had a teenage daughter and a younger son. Each of them apparently a single mother. And when Gabrielle asked her if she’d bring Nathan back home, she could almost see another reality in which Samantha asked the same question about Ben. It sent chills up her spine.
