Twins David and Daniel were...
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Twins David and Daniel were adopted as infants by a couple who believed they were incapable of having children. As so often happens, shortly after David and Daniel arrived, the couple had a child of their own.
As teens, David and Daniel often talked about their adoption and of finding their birth mother. They discussed openly their fears of being left out of the will when their adoptive parents died. Fear of abandonment always bubbled close to the surface.
David and Daniel shared with their two adoptive sisters the hardship of being raised as children of an alcoholic father. They feared his drunken rages, and the uncertainty of having enough food to eat or good clothes to wear.
When David and Daniel graduated from high school, they left the family farm to seek other livelihoods. This renewed talk about being disowned. The fire of speculation was stoked higher when Daniel openly announced that he was gay and moved to the west coast.
However, when their parents were killed in a tragic farm accident, the adopted boys were named equally in the will along with their sisters. All their fears had been put to rest: the adoptive parents loved them and considered them just as much their children as their natural children.
-- Becker 2
As teens, David and Daniel often talked about their adoption and of finding their birth mother. They discussed openly their fears of being left out of the will when their adoptive parents died. Fear of abandonment always bubbled close to the surface.
David and Daniel shared with their two adoptive sisters the hardship of being raised as children of an alcoholic father. They feared his drunken rages, and the uncertainty of having enough food to eat or good clothes to wear.
When David and Daniel graduated from high school, they left the family farm to seek other livelihoods. This renewed talk about being disowned. The fire of speculation was stoked higher when Daniel openly announced that he was gay and moved to the west coast.
However, when their parents were killed in a tragic farm accident, the adopted boys were named equally in the will along with their sisters. All their fears had been put to rest: the adoptive parents loved them and considered them just as much their children as their natural children.
-- Becker 2
