Abandoned for the Adoptive Daughter
Everyone at school knew the class president, Lucille Levins, had grown up surrounded by love.
When the weather turned cold, her fairy godmother brought her homemade pear tea.
Whenever someone wronged her, her older brother was always there to stand up for her.
Meanwhile, when I had a 104-degree fever and called my mom over a dozen times, all she cared about was how I was interfering with her work.
When I begged my brother, Aldon Rowntree, to take me to the hospital, he snapped impatiently, "You're old enough to take care of yourself. Why can't you even do that?"
No one in class wanted anything to do with me.
Lucille was the only person who would eat lunch with me. She even slipped cand