The head of the orphanage wore a troubled smile, twisting his head to glance at the little boy sitting on the single bed, then looking over to the child nestled in Joshua's arms.

After a moment of consideration, he began, "Both of these kids, they're on the autism spectrum. They've been left here since they were very young, without much love and care, which has affected them psychologically."

"What did you say? He's autistic?" Joshua's expression turned serious, his gaze briefly landing on the little boy trembling in his embrace.

Struck with disbelief and shaken by the news, Joshua asked, "How old was he when he was left at the orphanage?"

"He was found in the woods right in front of the orphanage. When we found him, he was just a little over a month old," the headmaster explained truthfully.

A little over a month old?

Those words hit Joshua like a freight train, his grip around the child involuntarily tightening.

He couldn't believe Susan could be so heartless, to abandon her child when he was just a month old!

He thought, at the very least, she would wait until the child was a year old before leaving him at the orphanage!

wait to get rid of him as soon as

over two years old now, and Susan had only

woman

Did the orphanage ever allow her to take him back?"

the child's biological mother?" The headmaster seemed even more surprised than Joshua. "You didn't

to adopt. She spent time with the child, she wanted to build some connection, but she never

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never

We assumed she just

truly had no idea that the woman, who claimed to want to adopt,

raising her child nor to completely let go.

learned, the worse his impression

did she start coming to see

times. Otherwise, we wouldn't have thought she was just interested in adoption, without considering she might be the

circumstances to leave her child in the bushes

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