And his face went.
I said, "Dan? Are you all right?"
And he said: "I'm sorry. I can't take her."
I thought I had misheard. I actually said "what."
"Danny. She's your daughter. What are you talking about."
And he looked at Lorna.
And then he looked at me and said: "I'm sorry. I'm not taking her home."
And he put her back in my arms.
Lorna was asking him why, over and over, and she had hold of his sleeve.
And he went red and he said: "Look at her back. Look at it. We can't do this. She can't be ours."
And I moved the blanket and looked at my brother's daughter's back.
And I nearly went out.
Marnie has a congenital melanocytic naevus.
A birthmark. It is brown and slightly raised and it covers most of her lower back and goes onto her left hip. It is about the size of a hand.
