Another update: I am rich! I have (well, had) a rich uncle who remembered me in his will. Who would have thought, me, rich. Whatever shall I do?

Oh, and another shock. The lovely people who took me in? They are my cousins! I am not alone in the world! I have family, people tied to me by blood, who love me almost as much as I love them. I had never thought I could be happy again!