Summary

Cindy confronts her father about Chung and quickly realizes the futility of expecting her father to respond to her questions and. Despite spending her birthday weekends with her father and stepmother every year, Cindy finds an excuse at work to avoid confronting her father. Cindy feels terrible about hiding information from her stepmother, who was the only person consistently providing her with stability and genuine kindness. She decides to confide in her stepmother about Chung’s existence, and her stepmother empathetically responds, promising to bring her dad with her to see Rick and Cindy for a necessary confrontation about the topic.

Cindy sends a photo of herself to Chung, and Chung notices a slight familial resemblance in their appearances. Attached to the photo was a letter explaining how Cindy was hearing two different accounts of the adoption story from her parents and was...