Victoria: How did you end up on the streets, Lily?
Lily: The adoption family took me away when I was six.
Victoria: What family? Who took you?
Lily: The Miller family. They moved me to another state.
Victoria: I spent thousands of dollars on private investigators to track down the Millers!
Lily: They weren't nice people, Victoria.
Victoria: What did they do to you?
Lily: When Mr. Miller lost his job, they lost their house to foreclosure.
Victoria: Foreclosure? They lost everything?
Lily: They left me at a state shelter and never came back.
Victoria: Oh, my sweet girl... my poor baby sister.
Lily: I kept the wallet under my mattress so nobody would take it.
Victoria: The wallet I gave you before they separated us?
Lily: You said if I ever got lost, I should keep the picture safe inside it.
Victoria: I remember. I saved up my allowance for a whole month to buy that little leather pouch.
Lily: I never let anyone touch it. Not once.
Victoria: And today... today I struck you for holding it.
Lily: It hurt, Victoria.
Victoria: I will never forgive myself for what I just did. Never.
Lily: Why didn't you recognize me?
Victoria: You were so small when we were separated. You were just a toddler.
Lily: I remembered your green eyes. But you looked so angry today.
Victoria: I was blind. I was so caught up in my wealthy life and my stupid estate that I forgot how to be human.
Lily: I thought you were going to call the police on me.
Victoria: I would rather die than let anyone hurt you again.
Lily: Are you really my sister?
Victoria: Yes. I am Victoria. Look at the photo again.
Victoria held out the old black-and-white picture with trembling hands.
Lily: That's you... in the dress with the white collar.
Victoria: And that's you, wearing the little bow I tied in your hair.
Lily: I still have that bow in my pocket.
Lily pulled a frayed red ribbon from her tattered dress pocket.
Victoria covered her face and wept silently on the floor.
Victoria: I searched for you for so long, and you walked right through my front door.
Lily: I didn't know this was your home. I was just walking down the big houses road looking for help.
Victoria: It isn't my home anymore, Lily. It's our home now.