Wait, you counted TWELVE shows you bailed on and one of them has the best final arc of the decade? That is wild to me. Twelve is not a small number, that is basically a whole season of TV you gave up on. I usually tap out around episode 3 too but I never went back and tallied it up, and now I am scared to look at my own list. The part about your buddy saying it is like reading the first chapter of a book and quitting really got me though, because he is kind of right and I hate it. Honestly I have maybe ONE show I stuck with past episode 5 that paid off, so I do not know if 8 episodes is the magic number for me or if I am just picky.

Her daughter was 7 when she started asking that? That means for years this little girl thought her birth mom just didn't care enough to check in. Four cards in four years sounds like a lot until you picture a kid waiting by the mailbox the other 361 days. I can't imagine getting that message from her mom and having to sit with it. Did you ever find out what the mom said to her when she asked?