{"id":16041,"date":"2026-05-06T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16041"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:08:43","slug":"my-husband-and-i-adopted-a-10-year-old-girl-when-my-father-saw-her-he-turned-pale-and-said-you-this-cant-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16041","title":{"rendered":"My Husband and I Adopted a 10-Year-Old Girl \u2013 When My Father Saw Her, He Turned Pale and Said, \u2018You?\u2026 This Can\u2019t Be True!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

After years of infertility, we adopted a quiet, kind 10-year-old named Lily. At a family dinner, my father saw her, turned pale, and claimed he had attended the burial of a girl identical to her years ago.<\/p>\n

Shaken, I investigated and discovered the truth: Lily had been wrongly recorded as dead under another name due to an administrative error, and her identity was erased.<\/p>\n

With legal help, we found her biological mother, who had believed her daughter was gone. They reunited, and the court allowed Lily to stay with us while restoring her real identity\u2014choosing to keep \u201cLily\u201d and add her original name as part of who she is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After years of infertility, we adopted a quiet, kind 10-year-old named Lily. At a family dinner, my father saw her, turned pale, and claimed he […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16043,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16041\/revisions\/16043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}