Posted in Adoptions

It's probably better to wait. Kind of like remarrying soon after a spouse dies -- my brother did it, and his new wife confided to me that she's constantly trying to behave like Wife #1 so he'll be happy with her. She feels that he resents the ways she's different, so she tries to erase her own personality. That's sad! But I had the same feel… read more

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We lived in a lime-green, two-story house on a curve of the Hoquiam River just before it met the Pacific Ocean. At high tide, the chicken yard and my big, hopeless garden were flooded. We had three elderly neighbors and acres and acres of forest all around us. The only light at night came from the moon and stars. So it was surprising one afte… read more

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