A Familiar Face
“I paused and thought about her being in a BYU sweatshirt. I was aware of her desire to attend law school, possibly at BYU, and for the first time, as I turned to look, I thought to myself— could it be her, after all of this time?” Crotts recalled thinking at the dance class recital. But when the mother turned around to look for the girl that looked like her daughter, she saw something far more startling!
Instead of seeing her little butterfly, Crotts saw her adoptive father! “The only thing between us was a door and the hallway of the mall. As I placed my hands on the doorknob, I stopped- ‘I can’t walk out there, I thought. What if she doesn’t want to see me?'” Crotts thought at the time, stricken with panic. However, things were about to get even more interesting…