Chapter 985 My Wife Had A Baby:>Ep2

• While she was gone, I stayed in our quarters working on unpacking and arranging things. I used the box cutter to open one of the many boxes and started taking stuff out of it. It was a box we had stored while we were in Germany. About halfway down, the was a small wooden box I hadn't remembered seeing before. I put it on a stack of boxes and opened it. My life changed forever.
• It contained a small stack of envelopes with a pink ribbon around it. I slid the ribbon off and picked up the top envelope. It was unsealed, so I opened it. Inside was an official document with the title 'Certificate of Live Birth' printed across the top. As I looked at the document, my mind started to fog up. It said that a 7lb 6oz baby girl who was 19 inches long was born alive and it gave the date. It was the same date that Lydia told me our child was stillborn. The given name of the child was Hope. It went on to say that the mother's name was Lydia Jane Sadler nee Johnston. Where it called for the father's name the entry 'Unknown' had been entered. At the bottom of the certificate, there were two very small inked footprints.
• I staggered backward and literally fell onto the sofa and stayed there for a long time looking at the document. I left it on the sofa, stood, and went to the stack of envelopes. I picked up the next envelope. It, too, was unsealed. I took out the multi-page document it contained. It was an adoption certification. I read it several times. The gist of it was that the female child named Hope, born to Lydia Sadler, was given for adoption and all parental rights were forfeit. It went on to say that, "in that the identity of the birth father is unknown, his permission was not required."