"Did you ever try to find her after you two... you know... split? Did you know about me? I mean... not as a possible daughter but as her kid? Did she... did she leave anything with you?" Lorna was reaching for straws now. No one had ever known anything about her mother before this. Just her name and the picture and the car she'd been driving at the time. They couldn't even figure out what her job had been. Most authorities assumed Amanda had been moving cross country with Lorna or something close to that.
She moved from the counter and sat down at the table again, taking another drink of tea and setting the picture down so her mother's smiling face could look back at her. "I was three."