She Signed My Name on the Adoption Papers

Synopsis

My mother-in-law signed my name on my daughter's adoption papers while I was still unconscious in recovery. Daniel raised a paper cup. His sister Claire held my daughter in the yellow blanket I had packed three weeks early, her cheek against Claire's pearl button. "Daniel, take her back before she upsets herself," my mother-in-law said. Everyone treated my reaction as the problem. Beside a man in a gray suit, my mother-in-law bent over the adoption papers giving my baby to Claire-and her violet fountain pen was already signing my name.-