A/N: How's that for drama? I need reviews guys! Props to all of you who've written such kind reviews so far! This is a short chapter but I promise I'll make it up to you in the next one, but it may be a few days. Really busy!

Chapter 5

Dear Olivia,

I have so many things to say to you right now. I need to tell you how grateful I am that you have given me the most precious gift one person can give to another. I'm not supposed to know your name or anything about you but, God forgive me, I couldn't leave the hopital today without knowing the name of the woman who gave me her child.

The adoption agency won't tell us much about you. They just said that you were young and didn't feel that you would be able to properly care for a baby. I need you to know that you did the right thing. My husband and I will keep her safe for you. She is the answer to my-our-prayers and I promise you that we will do our best to make sure she lives life.

It is important to me that you know this because I too gave up a baby. My husband doesn't know. I think it might kill him if he did. We've wanted a child for so long and been to hell and back trying. I don't know if he would forgive me for giving my baby to someone else.

Like you now, I was very young when I got pregnant and my family would rather I died than bring home a child at 15. They did their best to coverup my pregnancy and to this day the only one left who knows I was once a mother is my sister Vivian. I am telling you this because I need your forgiveness for becoming am mother again to your daughter.

She is so sweet. She is sleeping now and her little legs kick the blanket. Her eyes are blue, but in a few monthes they will probably change. I will wonder if she looks like you and say a little prayer of thankfulness that I don't know.

I want her to be mine. I want her to look at me and know that I will always be her mother but I know that can't be. I will tell her about you. I will make sure she understands the sacrifice you made for her and how she will always have a piece of you inside her.

Years from now when she is grown up and has given you this letter I pray that you will go to her and tell her how much I loved her because I know I won't be with her for this moment. Another hospital called an hour after we arrived home with her. I have lynphoma. They said that there is a good chance that they can treat it but something inside tells me that I won't be here for our, yours and mine, daughter's awakening into womanhood. I will try my best but 'time and unforseen occurance...'

Promise me that when she does find you, you will care gpr her and give her all the love she deserves? I am going to leave this letter with her when the time comes, and when it does I want you to take the key I am enclosing and open the safety deposit box at New York National Bank on Lexington and 110th. I will leave letters there for you from all the important events in her life so that when she comes to you, you won't have to wonder if there was ever more.

My husband and I have decided to call her Grace Victoria because she is here by the grace of God and because she will always be victorious. I thank you every day and pray that you will find happiness in whatever life brings you because you've brought happiness back into mine.

Elizabeth Atherton

September 1983

With tears streaming down her face, Olivia folded the letter back up and fished out the small silver key still in the crisp white envelope. She held it up to the light, staring at it as if it was the key to the universe.