After a very long night watching this story unfold, then working all day, I had no time to read any updates on the thread. But I can’t sleep, nor get this case, or this little girl, out of my mind. So, I wrote her a letter that she surely will never see. And I’m posting it for no other reason than I just feel like doing it right now. Here goes.
My open letter to Margo Broussard.
You’ve certainly been through the ringer, little lady.
You are too young to understand, but at the age of one month you have been through a deeper trauma than most adults will ever endure.
People will continue to make choices for you that you will not be not be a party to, as you are too young to actually give consent.
I really hope you will grow up with your brother and stepsister, and maybe eventually more siblings in a blended family.
But, you may instead grow up with strangers who will love you as their very own. They will become your family.
Either way, you will eventually have questions. At age 16 or 18 or 21, or maybe when you give birth to your own child, you will want to know who you are and how you got to where you are. Someone will tell you the story of your kidnapping and why your mother is deceased. You will mourn for the loss of her, and for a life you never had or knew. You will wonder why the people who should have protected you from this evil did not. You will wonder who made certain choices, and why. You will want to understand what failed. And that’s okay. You are allowed to question. This is your life story and you deserve to know it.
You will learn that that this world can be an ugly place, where a life you never knew was ripped away in the worst possible way.
But you will also read and learn your story, and you will know that you were loved by strangers across the world - who rooted for your survival when the most likely ending was that you would not survive.
Mostly I want you to know this. The circumstances of the first month of your life do NOT define you as a person. You are exactly who you are meant to be, and who you will become is because you are YOU. The sum of ALL of your experiences.
Be well, little Margo.
Go on and live the full life you were meant to live.