While in my mind and heart, this person is and will always be my daughter, at the same time she is not and never will be again. She is some one else's child. Fortunately for Lidia, her birth child did initiate a search, after her eighteenth birthday. They were reunited shortly thereafter. I pray to God it was the right thing for you.
Adoption is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Parts of Lidia's story can be found here and here .