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Diane's POV

12:30 pm ....

I carefully opened the bedside drawer as I searched carefully for any baby picture.

I already searched where I found the documents and I didn't find any pictures.

I carefully searched the drawer but I found nothing.

I sighed frustratingly as I smacked my forehead.

Where the hell could mom have possibly hidden the picture.

I sat in the bed at least to regain my strength of searching and searching for the past one hour .

I slowly picked up my framed baby picture from the bedside stool .

I caressed it with my left hand as I stared fondly at it.

My intense staring at it made me notice a tiny paper sticking out .

I never would have noticed normally, I turned the back of the frame and opened it.

A picture was folded neatly into four and placed just behind my own pictures.

I placed the frame down and slowly opened the picture.

Belinda Baker was written in cursive writing underneath the picture.

My lips stretched into a wide smile, just what I was looking for!.

I qu
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