less than twenty four hours later , lauren and grace were in an air ambulance crossing the north atlantic with a doctor and nurse at lauren ;s side . the small jet refueled on the east coast on the way to the airport in jefferson county , not far from boulder .
i went back and forth . had i had been too naive , or too trusing ?
maybe botjh ,maybe neither . i couldn't decide.
the reality was that the possibility of lauren reconnecting with her old lover during her trip to holland had never crossed my mind .
if lauren had gotten sick in amsterdam and not in hilversum .i'm mot sure i would have ever found out that she was getting together with her old boyfriend . but the fact that she was hospitalized in hilversum when she suffered the MS exacerbation told me all i needed to be convinced that her rendezvous with joost had taken some planning .
myyu girls european adventure 's original goal had come to fruitiion during those last two days in holland , lauren and grace had finlly arranged to meet lauren's daughter - grace 's half sister - sofie .
after the two families met for lunch in a restaurant , grace recieved an invitation to do a sleepover with dsofie's adoptive family in amsterdam . that was wonderful . gracie had fresh family ,she would have memories of meeting sofie that she would treasure for years .
lauren took advantage of her surprise night off from parental responsibility to do a sleepover of her own , lauren's sleepover was with grace;\'s half sister's birth father , joost holken , joost lived in hilversum .
the logistics protected grace's innocence . our daughter would be spending that night with sofie's family in amsterdam - they lived on a canal with walking distance of the van gogh museum - and in a perfect world grace would never know that her mother wasn't sleeping in their hotel room .
in that same perfect world i would never learn that lauren wasn't keeping in their hotel room , either .
i went back and forth . had i had been too naive , or too trusing ?
maybe botjh ,maybe neither . i couldn't decide.
the reality was that the possibility of lauren reconnecting with her old lover during her trip to holland had never crossed my mind .
if lauren had gotten sick in amsterdam and not in hilversum .i'm mot sure i would have ever found out that she was getting together with her old boyfriend . but the fact that she was hospitalized in hilversum when she suffered the MS exacerbation told me all i needed to be convinced that her rendezvous with joost had taken some planning .
myyu girls european adventure 's original goal had come to fruitiion during those last two days in holland , lauren and grace had finlly arranged to meet lauren's daughter - grace 's half sister - sofie .
after the two families met for lunch in a restaurant , grace recieved an invitation to do a sleepover with dsofie's adoptive family in amsterdam . that was wonderful . gracie had fresh family ,she would have memories of meeting sofie that she would treasure for years .
lauren took advantage of her surprise night off from parental responsibility to do a sleepover of her own , lauren's sleepover was with grace;\'s half sister's birth father , joost holken , joost lived in hilversum .
the logistics protected grace's innocence . our daughter would be spending that night with sofie's family in amsterdam - they lived on a canal with walking distance of the van gogh museum - and in a perfect world grace would never know that her mother wasn't sleeping in their hotel room .
in that same perfect world i would never learn that lauren wasn't keeping in their hotel room , either .
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