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Unleashing the Mom Within Last winter, I stood before a Russian judge and explained why I should be allowed to adopt a 7-year-old girl from an Ekaterinburg orphanage. I said all the right words: "Yes, I can provide for her on one salary. My brother will take care of her if I can't. It's something I've wanted for a long time." All true. But something was missing. This was the part where you're supposed to say "I do" with some measure of conviction. But... read more Second Chances My mother once told me about an incident that occurred when I was four--shortly after I was adopted--on a family outing to the Seattle Zoo. A woman approached us from a distance and, as soon as she recognized me, she raced toward us. She had been one of my foster mothers. As she stretched out her arms to embrace me, I stared at her coolly, as if she were a stranger, and then turned away. My mother described how troubling... read more
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