"Only Fourteen When She Was Cast Out for Carrying a Child—She Returned Years Later to a Family Unprepared for the Woman She Had Become Emily lived quietly in Ruth's small apartment above a laundromat for months. She worked part-time and went to night school under a different name. Emily was still a child when her daughter Lily was born in the spring. She was scared but very determined. She told Lily one thing: ""You will never feel unloved like I did."" Years passed in a blur of survival. Emily