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CompletedThe Mother Who Waited
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- Ying Luo
7.3Family drama · Web novel
CompletedThe Mother Who Waited
StatusCompleted
LanguageEnglish
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At Sam's graduation celebration, former housekeeper Darlene Pickett claims she swapped babies eighteen years earlier and presents Danny as Eleanor's biological son.
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At Sam's graduation celebration, former housekeeper Darlene Pickett claims she swapped babies eighteen years earlier and presents Danny as Eleanor's biological son. Her family boasts about abusing the boy, while Sam struggles to understand.
Eleanor calmly agrees to DNA testing, concealing that she has long awaited this confrontation. The claims have not yet been resolved by the test.
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