Eight Months Pregnant and Suddenly Raising Seven Children Alone, Until One Quiet Family Decision Changed Everything at His Beachside Wedding

a future too, Rowan.”

I looked at her, my eyes filling.

“You really want that?” I asked.

She smiled. “I’ve been taking care of you all for three years already. We may as well make it official.”

That evening, I sat down at the kitchen table and filled out the emergency contact form. Where it asked for relationship, I wrote one simple word.

Family.

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