7 NoraSighing, Nora slowed down and gave Channing and Quinn what they wanted.
“Imagine we’re back in the year 1985,” she began. “In February, just before my fifth birthday, Patty-Jean leaves me at Grandma’s ranchette in Edwards, Oregon. I don’t see my mom again for ten years.”
Nora rolled her shoulders, trying to work off the tension building inside her.
“Seven months later,” she continued, “Patty-Jean gives birth in Sweet Home to an infant girl. The child is only a few hours old when she’s privately adopted by an older couple with the last name of Roosevelt.”
She made eye contact with Channing. “Fred is the Roosevelt family lawyer. He handled the legal side of the adoption.”
She paused and took another calming breath before continuing.
“The Roosevelts name the infant Florence Hunter
