Chapter 473 Big Girls Don't Cry:>4

• "No Darryl, Elizabeth is from a relationship your grandfather had when he was in his late teens. Elizabeth's mother had left her with him and disappeared, so he brought her up alone. I married him just after you were born; Elizabeth was nearly 18 then, and your father, Robert, had been killed in the Falklands in 1982, a few months after Elizabeth found out she was pregnant; he was still only a boy himself, only 19. I met your grandfather soon after that, and we decided to get married. Elizabeth couldn't handle bringing up a child alone at such a young age, so we took you to bring you up as our son. Lena came along 10 months later, and we brought you up as brother and sister."
• "But you didn't adopt me, yes?" I asked her, and she shook her head.
• "And you're not my grandmother?" I asked her, and she shook her head again.