The Girl in the Orange Dress: Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail

"Chosen." "Special."

Those are the words Margot Starbuck used to describe herself as a child adopted into a loving family.

And when her adoptive parents divorced, her dad moved east, and her mom and dad each got remarried, she told herself that she was extra loved, since she had more than two parents and people in different times zones who cared about her.

But the word she really believed about herself was rejected. First by her birth parents. Then by her adoptive father when he moved away. T...