A disabled woman is kicked out of her family home by her younger sister after the unfortunate death of her mother, and all she has to cling to is an old doll.
Nadine was seven years old when Rosa Gold and her husband Dan adopted her. The couple had always longed for children but had been unable to conceive. Rosa and Dan wanted to adopt, and they chose to adopt an older, special needs child.
Nadine was wheelchair-bound due to a problem with her spine, and thanks to the Golds, she finally found a loving family. God rewarded Rosa and Dan for their kindness because a year after they adopted Nadine, Rosa was stunned to discover that she was pregnant.
Nadine never imagined that old doll would be her only inheritance | Source: Shutterstock.com
Nadine was delighted to become an older sister, and after Melanie was born, Rosa and Dan treated their two daughters exactly alike. Melanie was adorable and she grew up fast, but the older she got, the more difficult she became.
She was demanding, headstrong, and ungrateful for all the efforts Dan and Rosa made to give her everything she wanted, no matter how difficult it was to get, or how expensive.
Rosa and Dan did alright with their little gift shop in Times Square, but they weren’t wealthy, even though Melanie acted as if they were. Nadine tried to reason with her sister as she grew older, but Melanie wouldn’t listen.
One day Melanie said sharply: “Well, if they hadn’t adopted you, there’d be more for me, don’t you think?” Rosa heard her and was hurt and shocked by her younger daughter’s cold-heartedness.
Dan and Rosa had adopted Nadine when she was seven | Source: Unsplash
Then, when Melanie was twelve, Dan passed away suddenly from a heart attack, and Rosa was left alone to run the business and raise Melanie. By then, Nadine was twenty and she immediately resolved to find a way to earn money to help her mother.
When Nadine was about ten, one of their neighbors had taught her to knit, so now she thought about how she could turn her little talent into profit. She dived into her wardrobe and pulled out a huge bag with hundreds of leftover spools of wool in many different colors.
That night, Nadine started making a colorful beanie in a child’s size, with matching mittens. By the end of the week,...
