The Man in Sunglasses
Emily froze as the waves, the laughter, and the music faded at Venice Beach. Right in front of her there was a little girl carrying a bucket. Her posture looked way too familiar. Looking at her, Emily whispered, “Lily?”
But just as the girl turned around, the man who was with her yelled, “Sarah! Come here!”
He was a rather tall man with sunglasses on, carrying a towel. The girl ran towards him and just as they were about to leave, Emily approached and said, “Where did you find her? That’s my daughter! Lily Brooks! She’s been missing two years!”
The man’s jaw tightened. “You’re mistaken. This is my daughter, Sarah. You’re scaring her.”
Emily stepped closer, “Sweetheart, it’s me. Mommy.”
The man stood in front of the girl and yelled at Emily, “Back away.”
But Emily wouldn’t let go of the girl. “She’s mine!” she kept saying.
As the man and the girl tried to leave, Emily followed them, and soon after, the police got involved.
Waiting for the Truth
Daniel Cooper, the man, insisted the girl was his daughter and showed his ID. When they asked the girl about her name, she said it was Sarah.
Not long after, both Emily and the man were taken to the police station. They were both questioned about the incident. And after what seemed like an eternity, one of the detectives turned to Emily and said, “There’s a strong chance she’s your daughter.”
Emily was overwhelmed. Did she really find her daughter after her sudden disappearance? At that moment, everything seemed surreal, and she could barely sleep that night.
“It’s Her”
After a couple of days, the DNA results came back. “It’s her,” the detective said. Lily Brooks. Emily burst in tears. She could hardly control her emotions.
Daniel Cooper, the man who claimed Lily was his daughter, said he believed the adoption of Lily was legal, but it was obvious he was well aware adoptions don’t happen just like that. He claimed a woman had given Lily to him, but he wouldn’t say who that woman was.
After the authorities investigated the case further, he was arrested and faced charges for unlawful custody.
Finding Their Way Back
Emily couldn’t believe her daughter, who disappeared from a mall restroom two years prior, was with her again. However, the much-anticipated reunion didn’t resemble the one this desperate mother had always imagined.
Lily was too young to remember she was taken away from her mother, and Emily needed to be careful not to scare her. She needed to regain her trust and her love.
During the first weeks of finding each other again, Emily’s visits of Lily were supervised by a social services worker who helped both of them navigate the emotional reunion.
But then, everything fell into place. Emily and Lily could finally be a family again.
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Prince William & Harry’s bitter feud was ‘triggered by brutal childhood comment’, according to an insider
Late Princess Diana made her sons promise her that they would be friends forever, and truth is, the two brothers did share a close bond growing up, but during the last couple of years, that changed drastically.
Ever since Harry and Meghan stepped down from their royal duties and moved to the States, the relationship between Harry and the rest of the royals, including William, has gone downhills. It was mainly because of the interviews the Duke of Sussex gave in which he accused his family of a number of things. Their relationship became even worse when Harry published his all-tell memoir Spare.
Among the rest, Harry detailed a meeting in his book with William during which he had called his wife, Meghan, “abrasive,” “rude,” and “difficult,” something Harry referred to as to “parroting the press narrative.”
Allegedly, things escalated and Harry described how William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor.”
“He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out,” Harry wrote.
According to a friend of William, the brother’s relationship is at a such low point that William is considering excluding Harry from his coronation when he becomes king. “They are estranged, which is dreadfully sad,” the source told The Times.
However, royal expert and author Christopher Andersen told Fox he is “convinced” that the Duke will be there. “Despite all the bad blood between the brothers, I’m convinced that, when the time does come, William will not be foolish enough to exclude his only sibling, now fifth in line to the throne, from his coronation,” Andersen said.
“Things probably have never been worse between the brothers than they are now. William and Charles have pretty much made the joint decision to effectively cut Harry out of their lives, at least for the time being. There is no sign of a reconciliation on the horizon, and everyone involved seems to have pretty much come to terms with that.”
While the brothers seemed to be getting along until the family feud and the Sussexes departure from the royal family, Princess Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, claims Harry’s feelings of being the “spare” might have been triggered all the way back when they were children.
He suggested that the cause might have been something like the nanny showing preference for William, who was — and remains — the future king.
“I heard one of the nannies say to William, ‘I’m going to give you three sausages, William. You need to grow big and strong, because you’re going to be king one day,’” Burrell said.
Burrell, who started working at Buckingham Palace when he was 18 and later became King Charles’ butler, spent a lot of time around William and Harry. He saw their rivalry start when they were kids and carry on as they grew up.
“I met both William and Harry in their early 20s, at a polo match, and chatted to them, and you could see that Harry always felt he was in second place.”
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