John D’Anna Arizona Republic Published 8:00 AM EST Dec 26, 2018 If you’re just joining us, this is Chapter 4. You’ll get more out of this story if you start from the beginning. Read Chapter 1 here. See the previous part, Chapter 3, here. The people who gave Sharon a home On July 18, 1986, Faith Morrow filed a motion in Pinal County Superior Court, asking a judge to unseal the adoption records in the 55-year-old case of the Hatbox Baby. “I am now 83 and my daughter will be 55 in December,” she wrote in a shaky hand. “I feel I could better tell her she is adopted than to have some other person (well-meaning or otherwise) tell her after I am gone.” Faith told the judge how two years earlier while undergoing treatment for breast cancer, the radiation burned the lining of her heart, almost killing her. She had also fallen and broken a hip and undergone hip-replacement surgery. She felt her own mortality closing in on her, and she wanted to tell her daughter the secret she’d kept from her for more than half a century. It was even more urgent because her daughter was thinking of moving… Read full this story
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