I Raised My Late Girlfriend’s Daughter as My Own – Ten Years Later, She Says She Has to Go Back to Her Real Dad for a Heart-Wrenching Reason

Ten years after I adopted my late girlfriend’s daughter, she stopped me while I was preparing Thanksgiving dinner, shaking like she’d seen a ghost. Then she whispered the words that cracked the world under my feet: “Dad… I’m going to my real father. He promised me something.”

Ten years ago, I made a promise to a dying woman, and, frankly, it’s the thing that’s mattered most in my life.