A text graphic I made a few yrs ago that reads ADOPTION IS BEAUTIFUL...or so I've always been told. Mostly by ppl who aren't adopted & have no idea what being adopted actually means or feels like. I'm an adoptee. I've never been an orphan. I was born healthy & pretty. When my mother--a bright, lovely 20 yr old college student whose only "sin" was pregnancy outside marriage--relinquished me, there were lists & lists & more lists of hopeful adopters waiting to score a baby. I wasn't chosen, nor was I special. I was placed with my adoptive family due to timing. My adoptive parents just happened to be near the top of a waiting list of married couples gasping to write a fat check for a baby. Any baby. If they hadn't adopted me, another couple would have. They were lined up around the block, as they always are. I was Plan B, purchased to fulfill the desire of a woman who had tried & failed to have children of her own. I was severed from my mother & father & both our families, from my identity, from my heritage. My birth cert was amended with lies, & the truth was sealed away from me, not to be revealed w/o a court order. I was "placed" by one of the oldest & largest adoption agencies in TX. They charged my adopters $50-60K in today's dollars for me. I was handed over at 3 mos of age & expected to automatically attach & conform to a family of genetic strangers. That's my adoption story. Unfortunately, it's pretty common. Tell me: Exactly which part of it sounds beautiful to you?
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Boots Chantilly
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