Poor Veronica Brown. 😥
Dear Veronica,
Whatever your adoptive parents have told you for the past fourteen years, I hope they have told you this:
You were loved, cherished, and wanted by your father. I don’t mean Matt Capobianco, even though you have grown up calling him “Daddy” and “Dad.” I mean Dusten Brown, the man who turned himself in for jail time rather than relinquish custody of you.
When you were four years old, the nation alternately cheered and wept, congratulating the Capobiancos or consoling the Browns. There were a lot of politics involved surrounding the people who decided what should happen to you, all the way to the Supreme Court.
I’m sure you know this already. You looked yourself up on the internet, or heard it from friends, or fended off unwelcome interviews from media representatives.
Maybe Melanie sat you down, when you were five and ten and fifteen, to tell you…
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