* * * “You’re saying I can just take possession of a human being?” I clarified a few minutes later. I really needed more coffee. My cognitive abilities were fading fast. “Well, I wouldn’t advise on referring to it as ‘taking possession.’ But in Virginia, kinship care is a way for kids to stay with a family member as guardian when they can’t be with their own parents.” I might have been imagining it, but I thought I saw a guarded look pass between the brothers. “So I would become Waylay’s guardian?” Things were moving so fast. One second, I was getting ready to walk down the aisle. The next, I
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