{"id":22159,"date":"2026-04-02T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22159"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:53:29","slug":"my-daughter-was-just-six-when-we-lost-her-but-ten-years-later-i-saw-a-girl-on-an-adoption-site-who-looked-exactly-like-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22159","title":{"rendered":"My daughter was just six when we lost her\u2014but ten years later, I saw a girl on an adoption site who looked exactly like her!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"295\">Ten years after losing our daughter Emma in a car accident, grief had consumed our lives. Mark coped with work; I carried the silence. When I finally expressed my desire to be a mother again, we explored adoption.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"573\">I saw a girl online who looked just like Emma. Mark dismissed it, but the orphanage revealed a shocking truth: Mark had been donating sperm for years, trying to recreate a piece of Emma. Betrayed and stunned, I left him and began divorce proceedings\u2014finally choosing myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years after losing our daughter Emma in a car accident, grief had consumed our lives. Mark coped with work; I carried the silence. When I finally expressed my desire to be a mother again, we explored adoption. I saw a girl online who looked just like Emma. Mark dismissed it, but the orphanage revealed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22159\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;My daughter was just six when we lost her\u2014but ten years later, I saw a girl on an adoption site who looked exactly like her!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22161,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions\/22161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}