wntheboundariesbutthere were
esI feltshewasn’tdoingherbit. But
not closing the book.”
he realises that much of the complex-
of her and Celeste’s relationship is
vona’s doing. “That’s the saddest part
all. Celeste and I will never get back
e time we lost.
“But I understand Celeste’s circum-
nces. She has three other kids she
eds to look after and I’m okay with
at.Inthiswholeprocesstherewasa lot
frustrationandconfusion,butalso
derstanding.”
Her relationship with her biologicalHAPPY CHILDHOOD
MEMORIESdad, Morné, has improved somewhat.
He makes an effort to see her, she says,
and she also regularly spends time with
her sisters, Cassidy (18) and Micah (11),
and brother, Joshua (12).
She’s called Morné “Dad” from the
start “in sympathy for all the loss he’s had
todealwith”.
“ThroughouteverythingI’vehadto
accept that I can’t change people. In the
beginning I felt Morné was my biological
dad but he wasn’t acting that way. Celeste
is my biological mom but she’s not acting
that way. I’ve had to accept she’s perhaps
never going to be the person I need her to
be. AndMorné is always going to be the
ad who listens to loud music.”
Still, Miché can appreciate that
er biological parents have lived
rough immense trauma and
at the Zephany they’d imagined
l the years she was missing and
e Zephany they met at age 17
ere very different people.
“You must have all these ideas
your baby in your head – what
e’s become, who she is. All of a
dden that dream is shattered.
ey’re still going through pain,
this book is also their story and
ay to acknowledge their pain.”
Although Miché and the mom
o raised her are still close and
e visits her at the WorcesterAs Miché grew up in the Solomon household,
special and ordinary moments were all con-
sidered worth capturing – meeting Santa
when she was two, being dressed up as an
angel at six months, enjoying a cookie, un-
wrapping a gift and her graduation at the
age of seven when she completed Grade 1
at Steenberg Primary School.
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