No Space Between Them

Even though this day had started out as a regular one, Crotts had no idea it would become one of the best of her life. “My left hand tight around her waist, my right hand resting on her silky, light brown hair. There was no space between us, not thousands of miles, or legal papers saying I could not hold onto her,” she later said.

What’s more, she was excited to see just how much her baby girl had grown up. “My baby was now an exquisite young lady right before my very eyes, right back in my arms once again, seventeen years later. Every pore in my body combined with hers, at that moment—we were as one. We were connected, as we had always been, all of these years,” she said.