Restarting Life Ch 4

Restarting Life Ch 4
  1. 4

Susan frowned. Lily, don’t talk about Maggie 

like that. We owe her so much.” 

Richard dismissed the media and the 

employees

He walked over to Lily and gave her a look

Lily, watch what you say in public. What kind 

of socialite uses language like that?” 

Lily pouted. Okay, Mom, Dad.” 

Then she changed the subject. If she doesn’t 

want to come home, maybe we should just 

forget about it. Foster parents are more 

Torget about it. Foster parents are more 

important than real parents, anyway. She 

thinks of Carol as her mom. Like me, even if 

my real parents showed up, I’d only see you 

two as my parents.” 

Susan looked uncomfortable. She said, It’s 

not the same. We raised you from a baby

Maggie’s foster mom is poor. She probably 

went without in that house.” 

She opened the scrapbook

The first picture was of me at five years old

in ratty clothes, helping Carol shuck corn

Richard looked at the picture. He and Susan 

both teared up

The picture reminded them of when I was 

kidnapped

When I was born, my parents were just 

starting their business

One weekend when I was three, they took me 

and my brother Mark to an amusement park

Mark wanted to ride the Ferris wheel. I was 

too small

Mom was going to stay with me, but Mark 

started whining. I want Mom and Dad with 

  1. me. Dad can sit on my left, Mom can sit on 

my right.” 

My parents said no at first, saying I was too 

little, and one of them needed to stay with 

  1. me

Mark threw a tantrum, and my parents gave 

  1. in

They left me at a snack stand, telling me not 

to wander off

The snack stand was packed. The cashier 

didn’t have time to watch me

Mark was laughing on the Ferris wheel

Dad sat to his left, Mom sat to his right

The three of them watched some stranger 

snatch me and disappear into the crowd

They were horrified, but there was nothing 

By the time they got off the Ferris wheel,

was gone

My parents flipped through the pictures

wiping their eyes

The scrapbook showed me growing up poor

They thought of Lily, who had been a dirty 

little orphan

After they adopted her, they showered her 

with everything

They tried to make up for what happened to 

me, by spoiling Lily

They gave her everything she wanted. That’s 

why she was such a brat

Every picture seemed to be saying that me 

and Lily had switched lives

I was supposed to be the one who got 

spoiled. But instead, I lived in poverty

Lily rolled her eyes. She knew the scrapbook 

would make me look good in front of my 

parents

く 

She snatched the scrapbook and closed it

Mom, Dad, stop looking at it. She doesn’t 

even want to know you. It’s making you upset

I’ll burn it for you.” 

Restarting Life

Restarting Life

Status: Ongoing

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