I thought our new nanny was hiding something from my six-year-old son. Then I saw the musical notes tattooed on her arm\u2014and recognized a lullaby I\u2019d written as a child.<\/p>\n
Helen had become Andrew\u2019s favorite person, but one day he grew quiet around her. \u201cShe stole our song,\u201d he told me. She had sung the lullaby I used to sing to him, a melody I\u2019d never published or performed. When I asked Helen how she knew it, she refused to explain.<\/p>\n
Searching through my adoption records, I discovered a name I\u2019d forgotten: Rachel, my older biological sister. We had lived together in a children\u2019s home until I was adopted at eight. Rachel had stayed behind, and we\u2019d lost contact for 32 years.<\/p>\n
Helen was Rachel. She\u2019d begun using her middle name, and neither of us recognized the other when she applied to be Andrew\u2019s nanny. After Andrew mentioned the song, she realized who I was but was afraid to tell me. The tattoo held the first notes of our childhood melody\u2014the memory of me she\u2019d carried all those years.<\/p>\n
When Andrew asked whose song it really was, I looked at Helen and said, \u201cOurs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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