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Difficult decision
You made the choice you needed to make based on your recognition of your own limitations. You made the right choice.
Should you feel a bit guilty? Absolutely. That's how life works. You had a chance to save a life and you didn't take it. Mind you I might well have made the same decision that you did but I would have accepted the fact that I would be haunted by a child in desperate need who I chose not to help. You seem to want to be let off the hook and for people to tell you it is okay. It isn't. Not really.
And as far as her being scooped up and adopted by another family? I wouldn't find too much comfort in that. It's just as likely she will languish where she is.