"While applying for a passport, ... Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery: she had a secret half-brother. Her mother told Mary Carter that the abandoned boy was a 'youthful mistake' from an encounter with a married man. Nine years later, Mary Carter tracked Ronnie down at the barbershop where he worked and found a near-broken man--someone kind and happy to meet her, but someone deeply and irreversibly damaged by a life of neglect and abuse...