There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about her. Obviously if my situation had been better I would have kept her and parented her. But, I knew it was best for her to have the family that she has now. I was really enjoying high school and excited to start my junior year. I was running track and cross country. I was running faster times than I’d ever run before.
At the end of sophomore year when I found out I was pregnant; I was just devastated. It felt like I was drowning and everything around me was just melting away.
I had lost something…
That evening was so hard. I went to bed, but it felt like I woke up in a nightmare. My whole world was just…gone. I couldn’t tell anyone because word gets around fast, especially in high school. It was a really lonely time. I eventually told my parents everything that had been going on. I told them about going to the pregnancy center to get tested, that I’d been talking to some attorneys and had made plans for the abortion…
They looked at me and said ‘Hannah, you’re adopted, your 4 siblings are adopted, why not at least look at adoption?’