Trio

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Caroline – Birth mother of Theresa.

Theresa – Adoptee.

Kay/Adam – Adoptive parents of Theresa – also Dominic, Martin & Michael.

Paul – Caroline’s husband.

Davey / Sean – Caroline and Paul’s children.

Joan – Birth mother of Pamela.

Pamela – Adoptee.

Lilian / Peter – Adoptive parents of Pamela.

Penny – Joan’s partner.

Megan / Brenden – Birth parents of Nina – also parents of Francine, Aidan & Chris.

Nina – Adoptee.

Marjorie / Robert – Adoptive parents of Nina & Stephen.

‘Stop your noise,’ the nurse said. ‘Remember your dignity.’

She felt like laughing at the reprimand. Dignity? How could this ever be dignified. Lying here with her legs apart and everything leaking and she’d even dirtied the bed. She had been mortified, the smell alerting her to what she’d done. She felt nothing beyond the fist of pain that kept squeezing at her, pulling at her insides, sticking its nails like knives into her spine and bruising her bowels. Making her scream to her God, to her mother. Why have you abandoned me?

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