The Songs

“As the auctioneer continued driving up the price for me, a young couple finally stepped up and made the highest bid. They came forward and paid the officials the money. Then my mother handed me to their outstretched arms. I was now two and a half years old. I knew who my mother was and didn’t want to leave her arms for those of the strangers.”

Janet Sharp’s grandfather’s life was anything but normal. Born in 1891, his mother had to give him up at the tender age of two and a half if he was t...