She was the one who filed the papers for his adoption. The boy knew about it — for the first time, he believed that someone could love him. That he would have a home.
But two days before the papers were to be signed, the woman died in a car accident. The boy was told that she “could no longer come.”
The boy found out where she was buried and started running away from the orphanage every day — just to tell her how much he missed her. He needed a mother.
