The girl in the photograph

Emelie Falk, 37

Sitting on the sofa with my husband, my mind started to drift.

‘What are you thinking about?’ Mateos, then 28, asked.

‘My family,’ I shrugged.

It was December 2009, and after getting married a few months before, we wanted to try for a baby.

But something was holding me back.

I knew I had been adopted when I was tiny. Welcomed into an adoring family, I loved my parents.

But I couldn’t deny that I