This episode of SHLTMM is the true story of a baby that was brought to The Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children, outside of London, just prior to WWII. This baby girl, this foundling, is the mother of my guest, author and attorney, Justine Cowan. Justine's memoir, "The Secret Life Of Dorothy Soames," published in 2021, is heartbreaking yet evidence of ones ability to survive the unconscionable but not without eventual signs of trauma. It took years for my guest to unravel her mother's true past and sift through all the lies. But in writing this story, because of all the truths she uncovered, my guest has a different understanding of who her mother truly was.