It was a clear, tranquil night in early September, not at all the kind of night during which you would expect strange things to happen; later in her life Addy's parents would swear the stars shone just for their little princess. But this story isn't just about Addison Montgomery, it is also about the other girl born that same night, just two minutes later, under conditions not as lucky as Addy's. This story is also about Teddy Altman, and how these two girls were destined for each other; how they changed each other's lives in ways neither of them could ever imagine, nor forget.

As Bizzy Forbes-Montgomery was handed her newborn daughter for the first time, little did she know that across the city, in the corner alley behind Bernadelli's Bakery a 16-year-old street urchin was also giving birth. There was no way that she could know that this young mother was seduced by a business tycoon twice her age who then left her when she got pregnant. She certainly couldn't know that the girl would wrap her baby in a thin receiving blanket and leave her on Bernadelli's doorstep. And if anybody had told Bizzy that this baby girl, abandoned before her life had really even started, would become her own daughter's rock, the center of her universe, Bizzy would have had them committed. And of course, she would have been wrong.