A Lingering Hope

As weeks turned into months and months into years, Olive’s search for a family never wavered. Hope was something she held on to, even when everything around her seemed uncertain. She always found a way to look on the bright side, imagining a future where she was loved, even when it felt out of reach.

Every night, she would close her eyes and dream of a family who would take her in, a place where she finally belonged. Though she had no memories of her birth parents, the sadness lingered—a quiet ache that many kids in foster care know all too well, a constant reminder of what could have been.